Robert S Mason

Mason is a Managing Director of IGI, with more than 20 years experience conducting complex fact-finding investigations. He has managed major cases involving contests for corporate control, competitive intelligence collection and internal corporate investigations. Before joining IGI, Mason was a foreign affairs researcher at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and an intelligence analyst preparing classified studies for Defense Department agencies. Mason was a principal investigator in IGI’s 1992 internal probe of the United Way of America, conducted on behalf of the national charity’s Board of Trustees, which set a new benchmark for independent internal investigations. He testified as a government witness in the 1995 trial in which the former president of UWA and his associates were convicted of federal fraud charges. More recently, Mason has worked in the Middle East on multiple cases involving money laundering and alleged Iraq War contracting fraud. Mason received a B.A. degree from the University of Washington and, in 1988, an M.S.F.S. degree from Georgetown University where he completed an honors program in international business and economics and won a Dean’s award for academic excellence. He also studied business at Templeton College in the U.K and completed military intelligence courses at the Defense Intelligence College in Washington, D.C. From 1980-1981, Mason worked and studied as a Fulbright scholar in Damascus, Syria.