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Laurie a Leshin

VP & Director, Jpl Until 5/25 · California Institute of Technology

VP & Director, Jpl Until 5/25 at California Institute of Technology. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 1 organization on the Form 990 record.

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Organizations
1
Roles reported
1
Reported compensation
$1.4M
Others who share this name
1

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Reported as VP & Director, Jpl Until 5/25 of California Institute of Technology, based in Pasadena, CA.
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Received $1.4M in total reported compensation on the most recent Form 990 (Part VII).
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Laurie A. Leshin is the Bren Professor of Geochemistry and Planetary Science at Caltech, where she earned her MS (1989) and PhD (1995).

She previously served as the 10th Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2021-2025) and as the 16th President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2014-2022).

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Tenure here
Current faculty; previously JPL Director 2021-2025, WPI President 2014-2022
Education
  • Caltech MS 19891989
  • Caltech PhD 19951995

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Organizations

California Institute of Technology VP & Director, Jpl Until 5/25 · $3.5B revenue · Pasadena, CASEE SCHEDULE Opay $1.0M → $1.4MFiled FY2024 · Source: Form 990, Part VII
$1.4Mreported comp

Disambiguation

Other people named Laurie a Leshin

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Laurie a Leshin 1 organization · Boston, MAJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated

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Public data from IRS Form 990 e-file & the Business Master File. Individuals appear here because they were named as an officer, director, or key employee on a nonprofit's Form 990; people are grouped by name plus corroborating evidence (Schedule R, shared address, shared board members). · philanthropy.org