Jerome J. Verdier Sr. is a leading human rights activist and environmental lawyer in

Liberia Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...

. In 2006, Verdier was also selected to serve as chairperson of the

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for Liberia. Verdier is a multiple graduate of the University of Liberia. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration in 1988 as well as a Bachelor of Laws degree in the same year from the school's

Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law is the law school of the University of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia. Founded in 1951, it is named after former Chief Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court, Louis Arthur Grimes. The school offers a three-year prog ...

. He received a Bachelor of Science in Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. Verdier is a practicing attorney in Liberia and has successfully filed suit against the government on multiple occasions.

References

Biography at elaw.org

Biography at stopfirestone.org

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