Marc Haydel Morial /ˌmɔːriˈæl/ (born January 3, 1958)[1] is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League.

Morial went on to graduate Jesuit High School in New Orleans as a member of the National Honor Society.

[7] In 1980 Morial earned a bachelor's degree in economics and African American studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Morial earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1983 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.[8] At Georgetown, he was elected first-year Delegate to the Student Bar Association and served as a member and head of fundraising for the National Black Law Students Association.

After working during his third year in law school for the late U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland, he returned to New Orleans to join the firm Barham and Churchill.

In 2004, Morial added a new metric, the Equality Index, to the League's annual State of Black America.