Email jleach@aucegypt.edu jerry.leach@yahoo.com

                                 Short CV

Dr. Jerry W. Leach

Educator, Author, Speaker, Film-maker.   

Former Professor and Director, Alwaleed Center, American University in Cairo

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Previously National President of the World Affairs Councils of America; Peace Corps Regional Director for Eastern Europe, the Soviet Republics, Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific; White House Director of International Economic Affairs (NSC); Deputy Director, Strategic Technology Affairs, State Department; Consular Officer, US Embassy, London; Assistant Lecturer at Cambridge University; Instructor at the University of Papua New Guinea; and Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey.

AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

·         Globalization, Environment, Middle East, Turkey, USA.

·         Current book project:  The New Egypt: the society emerging from the Egyptian Revolution

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Cambridge University.
• M.A. Cambridge University.
• M.A. University of California at Berkeley.
• B.A. Emory University.
• Certificate, Kennedy School Senior Executive Programs, Harvard.
• Certificate, Diplomatic Training Programs. US Foreign Service Institute.

MAJOR WORKS

• Presidential Directive Banning US Trade in Elephant Ivory. White House.
• Presidential Directive on Control of Dual-Use Technology. White House.
• Executive Agreement with India on Supercomputers. State Department.
• Executive Agreement with India on Strategic Technology Transfer. State Department.
• International Supercomputer Safeguard Regime. State Department.
• The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange (edited with Sir E.R.Leach), Cambridge Press.
• Parliamentary Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea.
• Public Officials' Integrity Act. Government of Papua New Guinea.
• Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response to colonialism (documentary). PNG Government.
• "Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket" University of California Media Center.
• "The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes" with Alan Dundes and Bora Özkök in       Directions in Sociolinguistics, Holt Rinehart Winston.
• "The Emergence of Private Farming in Russia" Journal of Post-Communism.

HONORS

• Emory Medal for Distinguished Public Service (with wife Marianne).
• Commendations from Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
• Commendations from National Security Advisors Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft.
• Superior Honor Award, State Department.
• Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival.
• Georges Sadoul Prize for Best Foreign Documentary, France.
• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
• Rhodes Scholarship Nomination from Alabama.
• Phi Beta Kappa.
• ODK National Leadership Society.