HAI is pleased to welcome D. Leslie Winter to its Board of Directors. For the past five years, Mr. Winter has been Executive Director of the Achilles Foundation. He began his career in federal service working for USAID as a management intern in India. In 1969, he started two highly successful businesses in NY. After working in Washington, D.C. for an international consulting firm, by 1976 he had joined Plan International as a Country Director in Korea and later Brazil. in 1980, returning to NYC to raise his children, he accepted a position in the Mayor’s Office for Economic Development. He left his final City position -- Assistant Commissioner for Planning in the Division of Real Property -- in 1989. That year he became the Director of Real Estate Programs for New York University’s Real Estate Institute where he remained for three years.

Mr. Winter is actively involved in seven distinct nonprofit organizations, acting as chairperson, director and/or Board Officer. He received NY State’s Small Business Advocate of the Year Award and the Rudi Brunner Foundation Award for Economic Development Excellence in 1995. He has also received awards from NYC’s Mayor’s Office and NYC City Council, the Brooklyn Borough President and from the governments of Korea and Brazil. He has an M.P.A. from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and an M.A. in psychology from the New School for Social Research. Mr. Winter is also an investor and developer of real estate.