Margaret Clift is Head of Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Glasgow. She has been a major gift fundraising specialist for two decades, with a career spanning the higher education, culture and voluntary sectors. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, she worked on successful major capital campaigns at National Museums Scotland, the University of Edinburgh and Amnesty International UK.

Margaret has acted as speaker, trainer and panellist at conferences, workshops, training sessions and webinars for CASE, the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, RAISE, Global Arts Summit, and Arts and Business Scotland, and provided fundraising advice to charities, museums and galleries across Scotland. She has also served on the Professional Development Committee for CIOF Scotland. As a member of Advisory Panel for Rogare, The Hartsbrook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy’s 2019 fundraising think tank at the University of Plymouth, she co-authored the Critical Fundraising Report: Scotland (2017).

Margaret won the GLAMi award for most ground-breaking project (Museums and the Web, 2018) and Best Fundraising Campaign over £100,000 at the EMCEEs Arts and Culture Awards for Excellence in Fundraising, 2018. She has been listed in the UK’s Top 25 Most Influential Fundraisers (Fundraising Magazine).