Mais Abbas Abousy is a senior attorney with the Commercial Law Development Program at the U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of the General Counsel, where she primarily advises governments in the Middle East and North Africa on legal reform and economic development issues. For over a decade, she has led technical assistance to improve Iraq’s business legal environment. A native Arabic speaker who grew up partly in Baghdad, she previously served as director of programs for Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.
