Jill Lesser is a veteran communications and policy executive with over 25 years of experience in advocacy, communications, brand strategy and change management. She is currently a Partner at FGS Global, where she advises both for-profit and non-profits clients across a range of industries. This is Jill’s third stint with The Glover Park Group, beginning her collaboration with the firm in 2006. Most recently, Jill served as Vice President, Corporate Communications and Brand Strategy at National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society. In that role, Jill led teams responsible for the company’s internal and external communications, synergy across multiple lines of business and global brand strategy. Immediately before her work with National Geographic, Jill took a hiatus from corporate work to pursue a passion and helped found the advocacy organization UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, serving on its board and as President of its WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s Network. In that role she created and led efforts to find, fund and implement a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on the disease’s impact on women. Jill also co-founded of the Global Alliance on Women’s Brain Health, a global initiative to promote brain health. Until 2005, Jill Lesser served as Senior Vice President, Domestic Public Policy for AOL Time Warner, Inc., where she lead the company’s domestic public policy, regulatory and industry relations activities, and the Washington, D.C. office and managed a team of ten professionals and their support staff. Her work focused on issues ranging from technology and intellectual property to taxation and telecommunications, as well as various other issues affecting the media industry. She joined America Online in September 1996 and managing domestic policy for AOL until its merger with Time Warner. Jill currently serves on the board of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s and The Sitar Arts Center and is a former board member of the Levine School of Music (2005-2009, 2016-22); Georgetown Day School (2010-2016); The Center for Democracy and Technology (2008-2013); and Panim el Panim (2000-2005).