Ms. Leslie Albright is a Senior Policy Advisor to Lewis-Burke and will serve Lewis-Burke clients with interests in science, space, and national security interests. Ms. Albright has nearly three decades of budget and policy experience with both the executive and legislative branches of the Federal government.
Ms. Albright began her career at the Department of Commerce, in Washington, D.C., working nearly 10 years for the Department’s Chief Financial Officer to review budget requirements and make policy recommendations for the Economic Development Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs and for all Emergency Disaster declarations at the Department of Commerce. In 2001, Ms. Albright was hired as a Professional Staff Member for the U.S. House of Representatives, House Appropriations Committee. Among the departments and agencies Albright oversaw were the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Space Council, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense. As a Professional Staff Member, Albright was responsible for reviewing Federal agency budgets, drafting legislative and report language and making funding recommendations to Members of Congress, including the Chair or Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and relevant Appropriations Subcommittee “Cardinals.” Albright regularly convened meetings with relevant agency personnel, academia, private sector interests, the Government Accountability Office and the National Academies to inform funding and policy recommendations. Her last position was Minority Clerk for the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
Issue Expertise: Ground and space-based science infrastructure; human and uncrewed space exploration; basic research; tech development; national security, Federal law enforcement.
Additional Experience: Prior to joining Lewis-Burke, Albright worked with a firm advocating additional funding for national research facilities, academia, non-profits and FFRDCs.
Vital Statistics: Ms. Albright received a B.A. from SUNY Plattsburgh and an M.S. from Boston University. Ms. Albright retired from Federal service in 2019 and now resides with her family in the Hudson River Valley, New York. There, she serves on a local land conservation trust, serves as a merit badge counselor for a local Boy Scout Troop, and spends free time gardening, kayaking on the Hudson River, and hiking in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains.