Jack Leslie

Jack Leslie is Senior Advisor of Weber Shandwick, having served as the firm's Chairman for over two decades. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Global Health Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Duke Global Health Institute and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the NIH Clinical Center. A strategic communications consultant, political consultant and international development activist, Jack was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 to serve on the Board of Directors of the US African Development Foundation, and was named Chairman of the USADF Board by President Barack Obama in 2009. He is also Chairman of the board of directors for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation, a member of the Water.org Board, and former Chairman of the Board of USA for UNHCR. Jack began his career as an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.