Leonard Baldyga is a Senior Consultant at the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) specializing in Eastern Europe and serves on the Editorial Board of Encyclopedia Britannica's Polish edition. He is a member of the Executive Committees of Partners for Democratic Change, Sabre Foundation and the National Polish American Jewish American Council. He retired as Career Minister from the U.S. Information Agency and served as Minister-Counselor in New Delhi and Rome, as well as Public Affairs Officer in Mexico and Warsaw. He held senior positions at USIA including Director of the Office of European Affairs. He was Acting Director of the Murrow Center at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts where he also taught courses in international political communication and public diplomacy. He is a member of the American Foreign Service Association's speaker’s bureau.