Nancy LeaMond
Group Executive Officer for Social Impact, AARP

Nancy LeaMond is Group Executive Officer for Social Impact at AARP, a 35 million member nongovernmental organization representing and addressing the interests of persons age 50 and over. A member of AARP’s Executive Team, Ms. LeaMond is charged with implementing AARP’s Ten Year Social Impact Agenda, which aims to give people age 50+ independence, choice, and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable for them and society as a whole. Previously, Ms. LeaMond led AARP’s international affairs division.

Prior to joining AARP in late 2001, Ms. LeaMond served as Chief of Staff to U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, acting as a principal policy and legislative adviser, as well as chief operating officer for the federal agency. At USTR, Ms. LeaMond coordinated public affairs activities around the enactment of major trade agreements with Jordan and China, as well as the 1999 negotiations of the World Trade Organization.

During President Clinton’s first term, she was a member of Ambassador Kantor’s senior policy team serving as the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs, providing strategic and legislative support. Among her accomplishments is the successful management of the passage of major Presidential legislative initiatives including the North America Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round (GATT), and China MFN. Ms. LeaMond also advised then Secretaries of Commerce Mickey Kantor and William Daley on legislative, policy and management issues. Ms. LeaMond served five years as President of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group focusing on international trade, technology and tax issues related to U.S. competitiveness.

Previously, she spent several years on Capitol Hill as the Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar, managing activities of the Committees on Banking and Finance, Civil Service, and Aging.

Ms. LeaMond also served in the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education where she was the recipient of the "Professional Achievement Award." She began her career at the Public Health Service and the Medicaid Program in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and worked on health and education policy and program issues at the Office of Management and Budget.

Ms. LeaMond holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Urban Studies from Smith College and a Master’s degree in City Planning from Harvard University’s J.F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a past member of the Board of Trustees of Smith College. She currently serves on the Dean’s Alumni Leadership Council of the Kennedy School of Government and as a board member of the International Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.