Margaret Burdeu

Margaret Burdeu is the Principal of Burds I-view Consulting that works with government and not-for-profit sectors to renew their policies, strategies and build the engagement of partners and stakeholders.

Margaret has a history of facilitating multi-agency and multi-government partnerships and engagement initiatives and is passionate about promoting conversations that enable those with a stake in decisions to be heard. She is particularly concerned to improve access to education, health, community services, and the arts to people in the North of Melbourne and in particular local immigrant and emerging communities.

Margaret is currently the Deputy Chair of the Melbourne Health Service Community Advisory Committee and sits on a number of other hospital committees. Previously, she held a range of board and senior management roles in government and the not-for-profit sector in the fields of health, multicultural media, women’s affairs, and education.

Margaret’s expertise is in policy and strategy development, advocacy, multi-agency partnerships and engagement. Her policy work has mainly been in the fields of education, therapeutic and food regulation, OHS and health promotion.

She has held of a range of not for profit board and senior management roles in government and the community sector including: Senior Advisor to the Director Youth, Disability and Women’s Affairs Branch (DHS) and Manager Policy and Advocacy Mental Illness Fellowship Victoria. Her board roles included Chair of Multicultural Media Exchange Ltd that sought to enable the voice of young people from diverse community to be heard and membership of Tandem: the mental health carers network and Merri Community Health Service Ltd.