Matt Leacock is an American board game designer, most known for cooperative games such as Pandemic, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert.

[4] Matt designed Pandemic, published in 2008 by Z-Man Games.

[5] Leacock had previously worked as a developer of social media[6] and as a user experience designer, primarily in community and communications products[7] for AOL and Yahoo.

[8] He switched to designing board games full time in July 2014.

[11] According to Leacock, 5% of his design royalty for Pandemic products is donated directly to Medecins Sans Frontieres.