Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council
Cllr Maggie Filipova-Rivers
Cllr Maggie Filipova-Rivers is the Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council.
She was chosen as Leader on 11 December 2025. Cllr Filipova-Rivers, who is ward member for Goring, has served since 2019, as Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Housing and Communities at South Oxfordshire District Council, and since May 2025, as a county councillor in Oxfordshire. Her work spans affordable housing, homelessness prevention, public health, and community resilience, including playing a key role in the Covid response. She also served as Vice Chair of the Oxfordshire Health Improvement Board.
Cllr Filipova-Rivers is a public policy and economic development professional with extensive experience in green growth, refugee integration, and multi-sector partnership work. She holds an MSc in the Political Economy of Development and a BA in Financial and Business Economics. Her professional experience includes work with the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, where she contributed to major investment programmes decarbonisation and economic inclusion. Alongside this, she advises more than 180 councils across the UK on refugee integration strategy through City of Sanctuary UK, helping local authorities strengthen access to a broad range of services and develop more inclusive communities.
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