Margaret Ounsley

Head of Public Affairs

Biography

Margaret Ounsley, Head of Public Affairs at WWF-UK, has over twenty years experience of frontline UK politics. She started work in 1980 as a secondary school teacher in Slough, teaching History and English; but after taking a career break to start a family was elected to Reading Borough Council as a local councillor in 1990, rising to be Chair of the Community Development Committee. In 1994, after standing down, she took up a role co-ordinating anti-poverty work among local authorities in London and the South East; eventually working with over 60 local authorities.

When the new Local Government Association was formed in 1997, she was employed in the Labour Office as a political assistant. In 2000 she was taken on by the then Chief Whip in the House of Lords, Lord Carter as Special Adviser. She worked in this role for six years, working for Carter and his successor Lord Grocott. In 2006 she took on the role of Head of Public Affairs at WWF.

Margaret Ounsley is a FRSA and is married with two sons.