Leslie Archambeault

About Leslie Archambeault

Leslie Archambeault is a passionate human rights attorney, unapologetic idealist, and staunch intersectional feminist with over 20 years of experience in driving progress for women and children through international policy development and analysis, and targeted advocacy across contexts. Leslie is skilled in coalition- and relationship-building, and in developing and executing coordinated, multi-level influencing strategies leveraging a comprehensive and tailored suite of tactics and approaches. She is experienced in change management, leading matrixed teams, and coordinating and collaborating across agencies/departments and offices. With a strong reputation for successfully navigating nuanced and complex political spaces and driving structural transformative change to achieve desired outcomes, Leslie was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2021. Leslie is currently Managing Director, Humanitarian Policy at Save the Children where she leads on policy analysis and advocacy on all of Save the Children’s humanitarian policy and advocacy efforts with the U.S. government across crisis response and thematic workstreams. She was previously Senior Director (Acting) Global Development Policy, and Director of Gender Policy and Advocacy at Save the Children. Previous to her work with Save the Children, Leslie served as Plan International’s Global Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy lead (deployable), where she led on the federation-wide development, implementation, and coordination of crisis specific and thematic advocacy efforts at the country and international policy level related to girls rights in humanitarian settings, including with the UN Security Council’s Children and Armed Conflict and Women, Peace and Security agendas, forced displacement and the Global Compact on Refugees, child protection in emergencies, prevention and response to gender-based violence, and education in emergencies. She has worked for the conflict prevention and peacebuilding unit of the UNDP\'s Regional Hub for Arab States where she was responsible for crisis specific and regional/sub-regional conflict analyses and has also led research, policy analysis, and advocacy on issues under the Women, Peace and Security Agenda for UN Women\'s Peace and Security Team and Human Rights Watch’s Women’s Rights Division, including on forced marriage and sexual slavery in conflict contexts, and transitional justice.

Experience

1. Managing Director, Humanitarian Policy

   Save the Children US

   Nov 2021 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Education

• NYU

  M.S. in Global Affairs, with distinction

  2013 — 2015

• Brooklyn Law School

  Doctor of Law (J.D.)

  2005 — 2008

• Pace University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Human Rights
• Westlaw
• Event Planning
• Fundraising
• International Law
• Legal Writing
• Community Outreach
• Employment Law
• Writing
• Legal Research
• Legal Advice
• Microsoft Office
• Civil Rights
• Civil Litigation
• Research