AGA Fraud 2025

Parisa Salehi
Inspector General
Export-Import Bank of the U.S.


Ms. Parisa Salehi was appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the Inspector General for the Export Import Bank of the United States. Ms. Salehi leads a highly skilled workforce that provides oversight of EXIM programs and operations and works to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse through independent audits, investigations, inspections, and evaluations. Ms. Salehi serves as the U.S. Delegate to the International Public Sector Fraud Forum (IPSFF). The IPSFF focuses on fraud committed against and within the public sector of each member country, as well as fraud committed against multiple members as part of larger, organized activity. Within the federal Inspector General community, she serves as the Chair of the Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Small/Unique Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs) Working Group and the at-large member of the CIGIE Executive Council. Prior to her appointment to be Inspector General, Ms. Salehi was the Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of State OIG. There, she provided executive leadership to a global workforce of auditors, investigators, and inspectors providing oversight of State and the U.S. Agency for Global Media programs and operations. She also previously served in a Senior Executive Service role at the U.S. Agency for International Development OIG and was the Acting Inspector General and the Counsel to the Inspector General at EXIM OIG. Before joining EXIM OIG, Ms. Salehi served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for nearly five years. Ms. Salehi started her career as an attorney in the District of Columbia working for prominent law firms, specializing in financial industry and white-collar criminal investigations, before joining the Federal Government. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law.

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