Dr. Margo O’Sullivan began her Education focused career as a primary teacher in 1986, teaching for a number of years in Ireland, England, Nigeria and Malaysia. She then managed Teacher Education projects in Namibia, Albania and Malaysia. She has also worked as a Teacher Educator in the Solomon Islands and Dubai, where she helped set up the first B.Ed. degree in the Emirates.
She also worked for over five years, from 2002 to 2006, as an Education lecturer and Associate Vice President of the biggest teacher education college in Ireland. During this time she conducted various Education consultancies in Uganda, Ethopia and Senegal for Irish Aid, Concern and the World Bank.
In 2007, she moved to Uganda, with Irish Aid, as an Education Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Education in Uganda, and joined UNICEF Uganda as Head of Education in 2009.
Most recently, since July 2014, she moved to UNICEF China as Head of Education. Her education qualifications are all in Education with a B.Ed., M.Ed., PhD. Degrees and a diploma in Montessori teaching. She also presents at international conferences and has also published widely, mainly in the field of International Education and Education for Development, a field about which she is passionate. She believes that Education is critical to humanity and development and has devoted much of her almost 30 year to date career to this. She is particularly interested in what goes on in classrooms i.e. teaching and learning quality, and Early Childhood Development.