Andrew Michael MacLeod AKC is an Australian/British philanthropist, businessman, author, humanitarian lawyer, and former aid worker.

Since 2020 MacLeod has served as chairman of private equity firm Macson Investments,[1] CEO and chair of British-based Griffin Law, a non-executive director of Saudi-based Arabian Leopard Fund, UAE-based Burnham Global, and has several senior visiting and governance roles at universities in Australia and the UK.

[2][3] He served as Chief of Operations of the United Nations Emergency Coordination Centre in the international response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan.

[4] Previously he was CEO of the Committee for Melbourne, non-executive director of New York-based Cornerstone Capital, an affiliate senior associate to the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington DC; sat on the Sustainable Accounting Advisory Board; advised numerous charities, was General Manager Communities, Communications and External Relations at global miner Rio Tinto,[5] a board member[6] and formerly chairman[7][8] of Principles for Social Investment.

He raised a number of criticisms of the humanitarian system in his book "A Life Half Lived", including the UN's failure to crack down on UN staff paedophilia and hebophilia.

[17] Macleod's techniques have resulted in court orders against fathers requiring them to pay child support and allow children to assert nationality rights based on patriality.

He served as a visiting professor at King's College London[19] and was an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania Law School.

[21] MacLeod is the author of A Life Half Lived published by New Holland Press in 2013,[22] Stop the Bollocks,[23] Things I Would Have Told My Mother,[24] Maria: A Lonely Tear That Never Dries[25] and Doing Good by Mistake: A Humorous Look at NGOs in Disaster.