Peggy O’Neal

Peggy O'Neal is immediate past president of the Richmond Football Club, having been appointed in 2013, and having served on the board from 2005 to December 2022. Peggy is a consultant to legal firm Lander & Rogers and has specialised in superannuation and financial services law for more than 20 years. She was a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills until 2009. In 2014, she was appointed to chair the Victorian Minister for Sport's Inquiry into 'Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation'. She previously chaired the Minister's Change our Game Champions program. Peggy has been a Non-Executive Director of Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation as well as NULIS Nominees, the subsidiary company of National Australia Bank which acts as trustee of its superannuation business. She was also a director at VicHealth and Infrastructure Specialist Asset Mangemtn Company.

Peggy was appointed Chancellor of RMIT University in January 2022 and in August 2022, was named as chair of the Victorian Commonwealth Games 2026. She became chair of Vanguard Superannution in August 2020.

In the not-for-profit sector, she is on the board of Women's Housing, on the investment advisory panel of Home for Homes and an ambassador for micro-finance organisation, Opportunity International.

Peggy has a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Tech and a Diploma in Superannuation Management from Macquarie University. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Peggy was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2019 for distinguished service to Australian rules football, to superannuation and finance law, and to the advancement of women in leadership roles.