Jack Leslie

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. He is one of the pioneers of political consulting and stakeholder engagement and has been involved as a strategist in many of the most highly visible campaigns on three continents over the past 30 years. Jack began his career as an aide to Senator Edward Kennedy before becoming President of Sawyer Miller Group, a prominent political consulting firm, in 1985. Jack is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. African Development Foundation as well as Chairman of the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. He is a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa and the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Board of Advisors for the Duke Global Health Institute, Chairman of the Ron Brown Scholar Program, and a member of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s Board of Advisors. Jack is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.