Leslie Platt is a Principal in Ernst & Young LLP and Leader of the Health Sciences Research Compliance Group based in McLean, VA, and Washington, DC. The Group provides services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care industries. Mr. Platt has over 25 years of professional services experience, including many years at senior levels in the private and public sectors. He has served as Executive Assistant to the Director and Chief of Operations, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has been general counsel and a senior executive of two biotechnology organizations. Earlier in his career, he was Deputy General Counsel-Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and staff director and counsel of the White House Agent Orange Working Group. At the outset of his career, Mr. Platt served as chief legislative counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Mr. Platt has extensive experience in addressing business, legal and policy issues facing biomedical research and health care organizations, as well as other companies, nonprofit entities and government agencies. He has negotiated landmark agreements in biotechnology facility finance and intellectual property transfer, and is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding service. Mr. Platt is a frequent lecturer on bioethics and legal and policy issues in health and life sciences, and is co-chair of the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s BIO Judiciary Project (www.biojudiciary.org). He has served as a member of the Task Force on Genetic Technologies of the National Conference of State Legislatures and as a member of the International Bar Association Working Group on the Draft International Convention on the Human Genome. Mr. Platt is a graduate of New York University School of Law and a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia. Mr. Platt is first inventor on a pending patent for regulatory compliance monitoring and reporting.