Maggie McGhee

Maggie McGhee is the executive director, strategy and governance at ACCA. Maggie leads their development of strategy and ACCA’s corporate governance arrangements and the governance of ACCA members and students.

Their integrated thinking and integrated reporting reinforce that being a force for the public good is at the heart of what they do. ACCA’s corporate governance arrangements and the governance of ACCA members and students are fundamental in ensuring they actively support ethics and integrity in the profession.

With a background in audit and technical accounting, Maggie was previously the director of professional insights at ACCA, where she led a team of technical and policy experts to support ACCA’s global thought leadership agenda.

Before joining ACCA, Maggie worked for PwC in the advanced regulatory and compliance analytics area applying specialist analytics tool to clients in the banking and capital markets sector.

A chartered accountant with a degree in law, Maggie trained with National Audit Office UK where she was the director-general of audit. With over 18 years’ experience of auditing central government bodies, Maggie has engaged extensively across the audit and accounting profession, both within the UK and internationally, to influence sector developments. As part of this work, Maggie has been a member of a number of working groups and committees including the Accountancy Europe’s Public Sector Working Group, the EU European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) Working Group; HM Treasury’s Financial Reporting Advisory Board in the UK; and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) Audit and Assurance Council.