Leo Bøe is the President of Warwick Students' Union having graduated in July 2010 with a degree in Politics and International Studies from Warwick
University, after which he served as the Union's full-time Welfare
Sabbatical Officer for one year. Although originally Swiss and
Norwegian, Leo has grown up in Switzerland, the USA, and South Africa.

Whilst at Warwick Leo engaged in a range of activities and
experiences, having spent two terms in Hong Kong as an exchange
student, and having founded and presided over the interfaith Coexist
Society which received personal commendation from Tony Blair
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1plQo8bRc0). Beyond these, Leo spent three months working as a full-time consultant at an NGO in Ulan
Bator, Mongolia in 2009, and undertook a research project in Malawi,
investigating the 'Brain Drain' phenomenon in their health sector in
2008. Over the last year, Leo was a Jewish member on the board of the interfaith Young Leadership Council, a subsidiary organisation of the International Council for Christians and Jews, and was the programming director for the last conference in Krakow, in early July 2011. He remains an informal advisor and consultant to the organisation.

Over the last 12 months, Leo marched with the National Union of
Students at the national demonstration in November 2010, twice on the
Warwick campus, and also at the March for the Alternative in March of
this year, having also lobbied MPs in Parliament on the day of the
tuition fees vote in December 2010.

Leo is also currently on the NUS Welfare Zone Committee.

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