Senior Staff
Richard (Rick) Leach, President and CEO
Tel: (202) 530-1694 
Rick Leach currently serves as president and CEO of WFP USA. He also serves as a senior advisor to the World Health Organization and Alliance for Representative Democracy. Rick established WFP USA (formerly Friends of the World Food Program) in 1997 and led it until 2004. During the period he directed the organization, it generated over $25 million dollars from the private sector and led the effort that resulted in passage of national legislation that created a global school meal program (Congress provided $100 million in funding for the first year of the program's operations). In 1997, Rick also established a global campaign for the World Wildlife Fund that united its 25 country offices around a common plan of action. In 1993-96, he ran a nationwide initiative for the Clinton administration to increase childhood immunization rates. During this period, the immunization coverage rates increased from 50 to 80 percent. In 1996, he transformed the initiative into a division of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to his service with the administration, he was the foreign policy advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hunger. Rick has also served on the American Bar Association’s taskforce on the reform of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, authored articles on international human rights and microenterprise development and practiced law from 1985 to 1988.
Kevin Sturtevant, Vice President for Development
Tel: (202) 530-1694, ext. 106
Kevin Sturtevant joined WFP USA in 2009 after a long career in fundraising and consulting. Kevin, a native of Washington, DC, spent the last eight years as a consultant and senior vice president for Ketchum, Inc., the country’s oldest fundraising consulting firm. In that position, he served clients engaged in major gifts campaigns with goals ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion and led the team of Ketchum consultants throughout the United States. His client list included the American Dental Association Foundation, the American Red Cross, Shelter (headquartered in the U.K.), Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Auburn University, KidsPeace International, the US Air Force Memorial Foundation and the Muhammad Ali Center. Before Ketchum, Kevin spent several years raising funds for various organizations such as Reading Is Fundamental and the Human Rights Campaign. He received both his bachelor’s degree in political science/international service and master’s degree in non-profit management from American University in Washington, DC. He has served on several boards and is currently Vice President of the Williams Syndrome Association, based in Troy, Michigan.
Did you know?
1.02 billion people will not get enough to eat this year – more than the populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union.
