Liz joined BIS from Microsoft, where she served as Senior Corporate Counsel for Global Trade. In that capacity, she was responsible for monitoring export controls, sanctions, and other international trade and security policy issues. She also oversaw Microsoft’s the Risk Intelligence Group, which is responsible for trade-related investigations and forensics.

Liz also brings more than a decade of public service and national security experience at the Department of Justice, including five years as Deputy Chief for Export Controls and Sanctions in the National Security Division. In this role, she supervised all criminal cases involving export control and sanctions violations around the country. During her service at DOJ, she prosecuted national security cases, including espionage, economic espionage, mishandling of classified information, sanctions, cyber, and export control offenses. She has also spent time in private practice at an international law firm.

She holds a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and a JD from New York University School of Law.