125:(ACVFA), former chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ron Brown Scholar Program (RBSP). He is also on the board of the Circumnavigators Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships for study abroad. Leslie is the chair of the board of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and a member of the board of directors of Water.Org. In 2016, President Obama appointed him to the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. In 2021, he joined the COVID Collaborative, which called for 70 percent of the world's population to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by the middle of 2022. In August 2021, members of the COVID Collaborative, including Leslie, published an open letter to world leaders in The Financial Times calling for urgent action on vaccination. He is a member of the executive committee of the
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