Former chairman of Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading communications and public affairs firms, Jack Leslie is a strategic communications executive, political consultant and international development activist. He is also one of the pioneers of political consulting and stakeholder engagement, having served as political director for Senator Edward Kennedy. Presently he is senior advisor of Weber Shandwick, co-chairman of Health X Partners, chairman of the NIH Clinical Center Advisory Board, and a member of the Duke Global Health Institute’s Board of Advisors.
In his role at Duke, Leslie will build from work he began at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Residency in 2022 to understand the crisis of trust in public health and identify and prioritize specific actions that hold promise to enhance trust with a focus on communities, communication, and competence.
