Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum.
[3] Her thesis title was "The 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail, Cayman Islands, British West Indies: A Historical Study and Archaeological Survey".
She has worked on archaeological sites in countries including Mexico, Spain, Jamaica, Turks and Caicos and Turkey.
In 1998 and 1999, she was the UNESCO representative at meetings of the Latin American and Caribbean Technical Commission on Underwater Cultural Heritage, and in 2001, she worked on the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage as a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites delegation.
[7][8] She has lived in the Cayman Islands since 1986, having first visited in 1980 with a team from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) at Texas A&M University.