Maggie Murphy

Maggie is the CEO of pioneering football club, Lewes FC in Sussex, a community-owned non-profit football club and the world’s first to distribute revenue equally between its male and female teams. Maggie held a senior advocacy role at Transparency International, the world’s largest anti-corruption organization for six years and human rights roles in Amnesty International and Minority Rights Group International. She became a ‘BBC Expert Woman’ in 2017.

Maggie is part of the leadership team of Equal Playing Field, a non-profit organisation challenging gender barriers in sport, and in 2017 she helped organise Equal Playing Field’s climb to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, with a team of 30 women from more than 20 countries where they played a 90-minute, FIFA regulation match, successfully setting a brand-new Guinness World Record for the highest altitude football match ever played. Maggie has lived, worked (and played football) in the UK, Germany, the French West Indies, the Netherlands, Rwanda, Senegal and Tanzania. She holds a BA from Oxford University where she captained the university team, and an MSc from the London School of Economics.