Jack Leslie Biography

Jack Leslie is Chairman of Weber Shandwick one of the world’s leading global communications and engagement firms. A strategic communications executive political consultant and international development activist Jack brings a long track record of helping clients integrate global political economic cultural and communication trends to create innovative forward-looking strategy and plans. Some of the companies he has counseled include American Airlines Bank of America GE HP Johnson & Johnson MasterCard Merck & Co Microsoft Nestle Novartis Coca-Cola Pfizer Siemens and Unilever.
Jack was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 to serve on the Board of Directors of the US African Development Foundation. He was named Chairman of the USADF Board by President Barack Obama in 2009 and was re-confirmed for the position by the U.S. Senate in 2016. He was also appointed to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa in 2016. Jack is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations a member and former Chairman of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid Chairman of Duke Global Health Institute’s Board of Advisors and former Chairman of the Ron Brown Scholar Program. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation a member of the InterAction Business Council Advisory Board a trustee of the Circumnavigators Foundation and former Chairman of the Board of USA for UNHCR (the UN refugee agency).

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