Former President and CEO, Coro Center for Civic Leadership,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Paul Leger is retired from a long career in the public and nonprofit sectors. He was the President and CEO of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh and he has a deep interest in developing Coro as a way to train larger numbers of people to assume leadership positions. 

Mr. Leger’s nonprofit experience has also included work with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in Pittsburgh where he headed their workforce development and education projects. He was previously Senior Vice President of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development where he directed ten-county regional workforce quality improvement efforts as well as education reform efforts with emphasis on workforce improvement.

Leger was previously Managing Director and Senior Project Manager of the Pennsylvania Economy League/Western Division. His responsibilities for PEL/West included coordination of thirty transition committees for the County Chief Executive. This implemented a change of the form of government to an Executive/Council model in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Later, he was a member of the transition committee for the second County Chief Executive. He supervised staffing for Mayor Tom Murphy’s working group charged with creating fiscal stability for Pittsburgh’s government and he staffed academic reform efforts in several Allegheny County school districts.

In government Leger held positions with County, City and other local government units. He was Deputy County Manager of Allegheny County, as well as Capital Budget Supervisor and Director of Property Assessment. Leger staffed the Allegheny County Charter Drafting Committee and was Secretary for the first Allegheny County Council Apportionment Committee. He managing much of the day-to-day operation of county government and handled special projects such as consolidation of 43 departments to seven, reassessment of all property in the county, labor negotiations with 15 unions and the transfer of a major military museum’s operation to a private non-profit corporation.

During eighteen years with the City of Pittsburgh, Leger held positions under four Mayors. They included Director of the Department of Finance, Operating Budget Manager, Senior Budget Analyst, Director and Manager of the Pittsburgh Zoo, Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation and personnel administrator. He was part of the team that helped create the Regional Asset District in 1993, and the team that transferred the Pittsburgh Aviary, Pittsburgh Zoo, Phipps Conservatory, and the Schenley Park Golf Course to non-governmental operation.

Leger also managed the Boroughs of Rankin and Braddock at the request of the state Department of Community Affairs in the mid-1990s. He helped bring the $715 million BOC gas separation plant to Braddock and he sold the one hundred year old Rankin water system , which guaranteed permanent water system upgrades as well as lower water rates for residents.

He has taught in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, been an administrator in New York City Public Schools’ special education programs, and an executive in a Pittsburgh neighborhood based nonprofit.

Mr. Leger graduated from Duquesne University with a B.S.Ed. with majors in both English and History. He has taken graduate level courses at the New School for Social Research in New York City and he has been an adjunct faculty member and guest lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.