Aoife O’Leary: ‘A Lot of Being a Charity Leader is Learning on the Job’

The CEO and founder of Opportunity Green discusses cultivating a positive working environment, funding challenges and managing rapid growth.

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O’Leary has worked in the charity and NGO sectors for over a decade and felt that there were gaps in global climate action. While working at British charities ClientEarth and Pure Leapfrog, as well as European umbrella body Transport & Environment, O’Leary realised that climate funding tended to prioritise issues such as road transport, which can easily demonstrate climate outcomes. Read the full interview here.