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Dr. Jerry W. Leach is currently is Director of the American Studies Center at the American University in Cairo

Career

NATIONAL PRESIDENT. World Affairs Councils of America. WACA is the largest

international affairs non-profit organization in the United States. Active in international and civic education, foreign policy, people-to-people diplomacy, international business, publishing, public opinion polling, and media. 1996-Present.

Coordinate the national affairs of 82 local councils, 26 national and international

affiliates, and 433,000 members and participants. Direct national office in Washington. Responsible for national budget.

Lead national fund-raising campaign. Increased recurrent revenue for national

association tenfold in four years. Grants from German Marshall Fund, US Institute of Peace, Marpat Foundation, Kuwaiti Government, Cox Foundation, Wege Foundation.

Run national leadership missions. Trips to NATO, European Union, Turkey, Japan,

Brazil, Korea, China, Taiwan, Syria, Jordan, Taiwan, Singapore. Morocco, Yemen.

Track-2 Diplomacy Missions to Iran, Syria, Turkey on the Kurdish Question, and

planned for Libya, Cuba, and North Korea.

Organize national conferences: Divining the New World Order; Understanding the

Islamic World; Canada, the US, and the World; and Reconnecting America and the United Nations; and The Future of the Americas in January 2002.

Active working relationships with over 70 embassies in Washington, State Department,

Defense Department, EPA, World Bank, Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, National Council for International Visitors, Atlantic Council, Korean Economic Institute, American Academy of Diplomacy.

Active international relationships with Royal Institute for International Affairs, Canadian

Institute for International Affairs, Japan Center for International Exchange, Chinese People's Institute for Foreign Affairs, Singapore International Foundation, Turkish- American Association.

Run national program series: 65 State Department town meetings, 33 World Bank town

meetings on international development, 18 EPA town meetings on international environmental issues, 12 Congressional town meetings, 15 local symposia on Mexican migration, 16 events on Contemporary Europe and the Legacy of the Marshall Plan, and 7 events on Global Trends, 12 events on Future of Korean Peninsula, and 15 events on Future of American Diplomacy, and 6 events on Future of Russia.

Help to expand the Foreign Policy Association's teaching, discussion, and media program

Great Decisions from 250 to 450 colleges in two years.

Frequent speaker before world affairs councils around the country. Current themes:

Myths and Realities of the US Foreign Aid Program; Turkey at the Crossroads; The Foreign Policy Gap between the American People and Congress.

Run the WACA national speaker referral service on international affairs. Publish

national speaker referral digest.

Publish trip reports, national membership directory, management papers, and school

program manual.

Conduct nationwide workshops for professionalizing world affairs councils.
DIRECTOR of Civic Initiatives, Volunteer, and Exchanges Programs for the Former Soviet

Union. Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs. 1993-95.

Adminstered three AID contracts and three foundation grants as part of the US foreign

aid program. Raised $4m in grant funds.

Launched NGO development programs in Russia and Central Asia.
Established 26 partnerships between US and NIS organizations in agriculture, business,

banking, media, education, and non-profit work.

REGIONAL DIRECTOR for Eastern Europe, Soviet Republics, Middle East, Asia, and

Pacific. Peace Corps. 1989-1993.

Led largest expansion in Peace Corps history since founding. Established

22 new country programs in Eastern Europe, former USSR, Mongolia, China.

Negotiated eleven international agreements. Worked with senior officials in 35

governments.

Launched a new small business initiative for post-communist countries.
Restructured 107 field projects in education, agriculture, health, environment, small

business, and urban affairs. Started 18 new language teaching programs.

Helped raise $8m from foundations and $6m from AID. Administered $1.2m donation

from Liberty Bell Foundation.

Managed a $45m budget, a staff of 400 in Washington and abroad, 1600 volunteers, and

33 country programs.

Member of Senior Executive Service. Promoted to Executive Service Level 3.

Received three management awards. Appointed 162 individuals to positions.

DIRECTOR of International Economic Affairs. National Security Council. The White

House. Position held as Foreign Service Officer, not political appointee. 1988-89.

Handled international policy in environmental affairs, science and technology, export

control, nuclear non-proliferation, oceans and space.

Launched US import-export ban on elephant ivory which led to the world-wide ban on

ivory trade, the collapse of poaching, and the resurgence of elephant herds.

Created Presidential directive on export control and high-technology trade.
Helped establish virtual world-wide moratorium on whaling and win USG approval for

the first Ozone Depletion Protocol.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR of Office of Strategic Technology Affairs. State Department 1982-87.
Served as Executive Secretary of the Senior Interagency Committee on Technolgy

Transfer. Chaired two US Government conferences.

Negotiated with 30 governments in Western Europe, Soviet Union, Middle East, Asia,

and Pacific.

Had central role in creating the US-India Agreement on High Technology. Resolved

many trade issues. Helped increase trade by more than $1bn per year.

Drafted and helped negotiate the supercomputer safeguard regime.
Helped create the Missile Technology Control Regime.
VICE-CONSUL. US Embassy London, 1980-81.
Handled visas, immigration, social security, passports, nationality issues, US citizen

arrest cases. Special responsibility for Iranian refugee cases. Joined Foreign Service 1979.

ASSISTANT LECTURER. Cambridge University. 1974-79.
Taught courses on world economies, political systems, social organization, Pacific, and

Middle East. Organized international conference on trade and exchange.

Directed documentary film Trobriand Cricket. Won two international awards.
Consultant to BBC-TV for series Face Values with H.R.H. Prince Charles.
Served on the Board of Directors of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Served on the board of Directors of the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and

Anthropology.

INSTRUCTOR. University of Papua New Guinea. 1969-73.
Founding faculty member of country's first university. Ph.D. research on

Trobriand Islands. Dissertation on political movement.

Served as Advisor to Chief Minister of PNG for anti-corruption legislation.

Drafted two national laws. Provisions became Leadership Code of Constitution.

PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER. Turkey. 1964-66.
Taught English at National Teachers' Training College in Ankara, at Robert

College (now U. of Bosphorus) in Istanbul, and at Adana High School.

Conducted research on Uygur immigrants from China into Turkey.

Education

Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Cambridge University.
M.A. Cambridge University.
M.A. Social Anthropology and Middle East. University of California.

Certificate in Social Anthropology. Cambridge University.

B.A. History. Emory University.
Executive Programs. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University.

Foreign Service Institute.

HONORS

Emory Medal for Distinguished Public Service
Commendation from the President of the United States
Commendation from the National Security Advisor
Superior Honor Award, State Department
Merit Award, State Department
Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival
Georges Sadoul Prize (Gold Medal) for Best Foreign Documentary.
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Rhodes Scholarship Nomination from Alabama
Phi Beta Kappa
ODK National Leadership Society

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Oxford and Cambridge Society
King's College, Cambridge
Middle East Institute

LANGUAGES

Turkish
Kiriwinan (a Malayo-Polynesian language)
Limited command of Kirgiz, Kazakh, Uygur

PUBLICATIONS

Books or equivalents

The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange. Edited with Prof. Sir Edmund

Leach. Cambridge University Press. 1983.

Trobriand Cricket: an ingenious response to colonialism. 16mm documentary. 1975.

National television screenings in six countries. Circulating in educational film libraries in eighteen countries.

The Kabisawali Movement in the Trobriand Islands. Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge. 1978.
The Parliamentary Integrity Act. Parliament of Papua New Guinea. 1972.
The Public Officials' Integrity Act. Parliament of Papua New Guinea. 1972.

Articles

"The Emergence of Private Farming in Russia" Problems of Post-Communism. June 1995.
"Peace Corps and the Post-Communist World" Peace Corps Times. January 1993.
"Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket" University of California. 1980.
"Land and People: the Trobriand Islanders" Curriculum Module written with Michael Sallnow

for Inner London Education Authority. ILEA Publications. 1979.

"The Conflict underlying the Kabisawali Movement" in R. May (ed.) Micronationalism in

Melanesia. ANU Press. 1979.

"The 1972 Elections in the Kula Open" in D. Stone (ed.) Prelude to Self-Govemment. ANU

Press. 1976.

"Making the Best of Tourism" in R. May (ed.) Priorities in Melanesian Development. ANU

Press. 1973.

"The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes" with Alan Dundes and Bora Ozkok in

Directions in Sociolinguistics, J. Gumperz and D. Hymes (ed.), HRWinston. 1972.

"Culture as an Invisible Prison" Peace Corps Reader. 1969.

External links

http://www.aucegypt.edu/Pages/default.aspx