Leslie Elder is a Senior Nutrition Specialist with more than 25 years of experience in international public health, focusing on infant and young child feeding practices and maternal and adolescent nutrition, in addition to broader issues of safe motherhood and maternal, newborn, and child health. Prior to joining the World Bank in 2009, Leslie was Senior Director, Newborn Health and the Deputy and Acting Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Saving Newborn Lives program at Save the Children/US. She has additional professional experience supporting USAID-funded nutrition and health projects implemented through the Academy for Educational Development and John Snow, Incorporated as well as earlier stints at the World Bank. She received her MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania.