Laiza is passionate about inspiring the corporate sector to embrace responsible business as part of their core strategy and purpose and then creating cross-sector partnerships for international development.

Her experience includes the design of Economic, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategies, managing strategy implementation, and negotiations and related stakeholder relations required to achieve an organisation’s core objectives.

With over 14 years experience as a consultant, at Accenture Commercial Consulting and Accenture Development Partnerships, she has focused on the international development sector, applying private sector approaches across the government, the not-for-profit, and corporate worlds, to deliver sustainable outcomes for social impact.

Her most recent engagement, the New Ireland Provincial Malaria Alliance’s definitive feasibility study, was an innovative malaria elimination project in Papua New Guinea based on cross-sector collaboration.

​In 2015, she led the implementation strategy for the National Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) tracking platform in Mexico for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Mexican Government.