Since 2008, Leah Binder has served as President & CEO of The Leapfrog Group, an award-winning national nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., representing employers and other purchasers of health care calling for improved safety and quality in health systems. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and other publications, and consistently cited among the 100 most influential people and top women in healthcare and patient safety. Under her leadership, The Leapfrog Group launched the Hospital Safety Grade, which assigns letter grades assessing the safety of general hospitals and hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers across the country. She fostered groundbreaking innovation in the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which publicly reports information on hospital quality available from no other source. Before joining Leapfrog, Leah served as the Vice President of a nationally noted rural health system in Farmington, Maine; and prior to that, as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the New York City Mayor. She started her career at the National League for Nursing. She has a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis and two master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.