Marcy 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. In these roles she oversaw programs in natural resource management, food security, community forestry, governance, health and reproductive health and education. Policy influence, gender equity and a rights-based approach were central to this work. Marcy served as CARE’s Deputy Secretary General in Geneva from 2010-2013 where she was responsible for strategic planning, organizational development and governance.
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. With OCHA she also held roles as Head of Office and Senior Humanitarian Adviser. 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.
Marcy has a master's degree in political science from the University of Toronto and a bachelor's degree in political science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Marcy is married with three children.