Maggie Murphy is the General Manager at Lewes FC, the world’s only club to distribute revenue equally between its male and female teams. She has a background in anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and human rights, having held a senior advocacy role at Transparency International, the world’s largest anti-corruption organisation for almost 6 years. Maggie also worked at Amnesty International and Minority Rights Group International and became a BBC Expert Woman in 2017.

In 2018 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. There they laid a full-size football pitch and a played a 90-minute, FIFA regulation match, successfully setting a brand-new Guinness World Record for the highest altitude football match ever played. Maggie continues to be part of the Equal Playing Field leadership team and has helped set a further three Guinness World Records.

You can see the beIN SPORTS documentary charting Maggie and the rest of the women’s quest to achieve their monumental record below:

Maggie has also 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.

In this seventh episode of In Her Corner, we’ll talk to Maggie about why sport needs to be more ambitious in tackling gender and socioeconomic discrimination and how Lewes FC is levelling the playing field between the men and women’s game.

You can listen to the trailer for Maggie’s episode using the player below:

Maggie’s full episode will be released at 1pm BST on Wednesday 12 August and will be available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major streaming platforms.

Podcast theme track by Wayne Urquhart  and Mix Engineering by Nick Murphy.