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Ms Marcy Vigoda brings more than 30 years of experience in international development, humanitarian action, partnerships, external relations, resource mobilisation, gender equality, organisational development and governance to the leadership of the International Land Coalition. She began her career as a consultant, first in Canada and subsequently in Bangladesh, and went on from there to increasingly senior positions with CARE International in Asia, Africa and Latin America including Country Director, Program Director and Gender Adviser. She helped expand CARE’s private sector engagement, drove innovative programming and significantly expanded partnerships with national civil society organisations. From 2014-2021 Marcy was Chief of the Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation Branch at the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), leading record fundraising for OCHA’s income and pooled funds as well as the coordination of system-wide resource mobilisation for key humanitarian crises. In this role, she worked closely with UN partners, Member States, regional organisations and NGOs and led teams working on donor relations, external relations and intergovernmental policy. She also served as Director of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat (2022-2024) which works with the 66 SUN countries to accelerate progress to end malnutrition in all its forms, supporting its growing focus on the linkages between nutrition, food security and climate.