Leigh Morris Sloane
Leigh Morris Sloane serves as the Executive Director for the Civic Education Project (CEP). In this position, she works with the Board of Directors to develop and launch new programs throughout the Middle East. Previously, Ms. Sloane was the Assistant Director for the Congress and US Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). At CFR, she organized weekly roundtable discussions on major international issues with leading foreign policy experts for senior congressional staff. From 1998-1999, Ms. Sloane worked for Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, initially as a Foreign Policy Analyst for Europe and later as Program Officer for the new Middle East Initiative. In addition, Ms. Sloane has served as the Assistant Director for West European Studies at The Ohio State University.
Ms. Sloane began her career with a focus on Eastern Europe. She spent nearly two years living in Hungary in the early 1990s, first as a university student at the Budapest University of Economics and later as an English instructor at Veszprém University. From 1994-1996, she served as Development Assistant for the American University in Bulgaria in its Washington, DC office and at its campus in Blagoevgrad.
Ms. Sloane earned a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics in History and Theory of International Relations and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is proficient in French and Hungarian and has a basic knowledge of Bulgarian and German.
Ms. Sloane is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband and their two children.