Elizabeth Margolis
EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR, Health and nutrition
Elizabeth Margolis is an experienced food security professional specialising in policy and advocacy, humanitarian food security, school meals, gender transformation and project management.
Previously with World Vision, she managed school meal programmes and humanitarian responses in Angola and Burundi. She was advocacy lead for World Vision's Global Hunger Response and advised on food security humanitarian policy. Liz also previously worked for the United Nations World Food Programme on cash transfers, policy, and data analysis. In addition, she worked for several US-based NGOs and speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
Liz holds a Master’s Degree in Social Development with Distinction from the University of Sussex and a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy and Ethics from Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. She is a Certified Development Project Management (CDPM) and was a recipient of the International Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowship (2021-2023) through the US Congressional Hunger Center. She is based in Colorado, USA and lives primarily in Guatemala City, Guatemala with her spouse.