James A. Leach

James A. Leach, is the U.S. Representative from Iowa’s Second District. A Republican, he is serving his fourteenth term in Congress. He is Chairman of the Asia and Pacific Subcommittee of the House Committee on International Relations and Chairman Emeritus of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, which he headed from 1994 to 2000. During his tenure, the Committee enacted the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the most sweeping banking reform since the New Deal, designed to stimulate competition among providers of financial services and strengthen privacy protection for consumers. A former Foreign Service officer, Congressman Leach is a graduate of Princeton University, where he currently serves as a Trustee, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the London School of Economics.