David K. Leonard

David Leonard has been a Berkeley faculty member in the Political Science Department since 1976. Prior to that he served on the faculties of the Universities of Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He has lived in Africa for over a dozen years, in four different countries, and has done short-term work in another 16 Anglophone and Francophone countries on that continent. Over the years he has served as advisor to the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agricultural Organization, the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, the Office for Technology Assessment of the United States Congress and the Government of Kenya.

At Berkeley Prof. Leonard has served as Dean of International and Area Studies (1999-2004). He has also been chair of the African Studies Center, of the Academic Senate Committee on Admissions and Enrollment, and of Peace and Conflict Studies, as well as having been President of the Council of University of California Faculty Associations.

Prof. Leonard's principal publications include the following books: Reaching the Peasant Farmer: Organization Theory and Practice in Kenya (1977); editor with Dale R. Marshall, Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor: Decentralization and Organizational Linkages (1982); African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development (1991); Editor, Africa's Changing Markets for Health and Veterinary Services: The New Institutional Issues (2000); and with Scott Straus, Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (2003).

He received the 1992 Prize for Research for the Third World, sponsored by the Dutch government Advisory Council for Scientific Research (RAWOO) and was a Danforth Fellow from 1965-68.

David Leonard received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1963 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. His wife is Leslie Leonard, who is Assistant Dean Emerita for Finance and Administration of UCB's College of Letters and Science. He has four children and nine grandchildren.