Liza Baron
Managing Director
Liza Baron is a managing director in the Mintz Group’s Washington, DC office and specializes in integrity due diligence matters. She established and led the company’s Middle East and North Africa practice, managing FCPA compliance and internal investigations, international asset searches and litigation support matters. She regularly conducts fieldwork throughout the region and maintains a wide network of sources.
Liza has robust experience conducting intensive research projects and interviews across the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon, U.A.E., Morocco and Jordan. Previously, Liza represented a number of international NGOs in the Middle East, including in Egypt, Oman and Yemen, and led implementation of youth empowerment, community economic strengthening and humanitarian programs.
Liza received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study political economy and development and earned a Master’s in Public Policy, jointly awarded by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, and Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Barcelona, Spain. Her thesis focused on integrating transparency in the extractive sectors of developing, resource-rich countries. Liza received her B.A. in Anthropology and Arabic from Washington University in St. Louis, where she graduated magna cum laude. She won a Fulbright scholarship in Morocco to examine the government’s use of compulsory religious education as a vehicle for political and social messaging.
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