Margo Fahnestock

Margot Fahnestock

Vice President, Strategic Development

Margot Fahnestock joined Medicines360 in 2019. As the Vice President of Strategic Development for Medicines360, Margot leads Medicines360’s fundraising efforts and oversees the Global program.

As a philanthropy and policy expert in family planning and reproductive health, Margot formerly served as a Program Officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, responsible for making grants to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa.

She was a founding member and catalyst for the Ouagadougou Partnership, which has mobilized more than $250 million in additional funding for family planning in Francophone West Africa.

Prior to Hewlett Margot was a policy analyst and project manager at Futures Group, providing technical and managerial oversight for family planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria policy programs. Margot served two years as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer teaching English at a secondary school in Mali, West Africa. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles and master’s in public policy from the University of Chicago.