Matt Leacock

Matt Leacock has been designing board games full time since 2014. He is best known for his cooperative titles, Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy, and Forbidden Island and he has designed over two dozen titles for the international market. His award-winning game, Pandemic premiered in 2008 and has gone on to sell over 5 million copies worldwide. In a prior life he was a user experience designer at Apple, Netscape, AOL, Yahoo!, and the Chief Designer at Sococo. His latest design, Daybreak challenges players to tackle the climate crisis and won the Best Board or Tabletop Game for Impact at the Games for Change Awards and Hobby Game of the Year (Kennerspiel) in Germany this year.