Deborah Raviv

Deborah Raviv is the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General (OIG). Ms. Raviv has been with Interior OIG since 2020 and was previously the Director of the Office of Special Investigations and Reviews. Ms. Raviv is also a graduate of the Department of the Interior Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program.   

Before joining Interior, Ms. Raviv worked as a supervisory attorney advisor with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs OIG, and before that, as the Special Investigative Counsel for Procurement at the U.S. Department of Commerce OIG. She also spent one year detailed to the Office of White House Counsel Ethics and Compliance Office assisting presidential nominees and appointees with a range of ethics issues and their financial disclosure obligations. In addition, she spent five months on an executive detail to the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee as the Special Director for Strategic Planning and Performance. 

Before joining the federal government, Ms. Raviv was employed as an attorney in private practice with a prominent international law firm in Washington, DC. Her private practice focused on counseling clients on procurement and grant matters, representing clients under federal investigation, and litigating on clients’ behalf before federal courts and the Government Accountability Office. Ms. Raviv began her career as a law clerk for Chief Judge James Lawrence King in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. 

Ms. Raviv received a law degree with high honors from the George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Indiana University.