Leslie

 

Rae Ferat

Leslie Rae Ferat is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (formerly Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control), a global network of civil society organisations working towards a world-free from the health, social and economic consequences of tobacco and tobacco use. 

She joined GATC in 2018 and became Executive Director in 2020. Leslie also leads the work on key policy issues such as financing for development, the SDGs, NCDs and the COP.  She is currently President of the NCD Alliance, a member of the WCTC Content Committee and the WHO Civil Society Working Group on NCDs.

Leslie has extensive international experience, mainly working in global health and prior to that, with low- and middle-income countries to collect and use data to drive sustainable development and meet the SDGs. Before joining GATC, Leslie worked for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the UN Foundation. Leslie also serves as Chair of the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa in Canada and holds an MSc in International Development (Poverty and Inequality).