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Thomas
V. Fuentes – Assistant Director, International Operations
Mr.
Fuentes was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, Business
Administration and Public Service from Governors State University,
University Park, Illinois.
On
September 9, 1979, he was appointed as a special agent
of the FBI and assigned to the Chicago Field Office
where he served for 10 years. During his
tenure in Chicago,
he supervised an Organized Crime Task Force Squad for
two years.
In
March 1990, he was selected to the position of Supervisor
in the Organized Crime Section, Criminal Investigative
Division, at FBI Headquarters. He
was assigned as an Assistant Inspector in the Inspection
Division and was selected by the Director as a 1991-1992
Fellow in the Council for Excellence in the Government
Fellowship Program.
In
July 1994, Mr. Fuentes was appointed as the Assistant
Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field
Office, where he managed the Organized Crime/Drug,
White Collar Crime and SWAT Programs. During his tenure
in the San Francisco Field Office, he established the
International Cybercrime Squad and was selected to
serve as an FBI tactical commander at the 1996 Summer
Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
In
August 1997, Mr. Fuentes was promoted to the Senior
Executive Service as the Chief of the Organized Crime
Section, FBI Headquarters, where he managed all FBI
Organized Crime Program investigations. In
addition, he represented the FBI on several international
working groups, including the G-8 Law Enforcement Projects
Group and the Organized Crime Committee of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police. He also directed
the FBI's participation in the Italian American Working
Group and the FBI/National Police Agency of Japan Working
Group. He managed several international organized
crime initiatives with Interpol in addressing Eurasian
and Asian Organized Crime Enterprises. Mr. Fuentes
created the Organized Crime Task Force consisting of
FBI Agents and Hungarian National Police Officers in Budapest, Hungary,
which was the first such multinational organized crime
task force of its kind in the FBI.
In
September 2002, he was named Special Agent in Charge
of the Indianapolis Field Office, with responsibility
for all FBI operations throughout the state of Indiana. He
was the first Executive On-Scene Commander for FBI
operations in Iraq and
served from July through September 2003.
In
June 2004, Mr. Fuentes was named Special Agent in Charge of
the Office of International Operations; in May 2007 he was
promoted to Assistant Director of the Office of International
Operations. He currently manages more than 75 FBI offices
in U.S. Embassies and U.S. Consulates worldwide. In addition
to his Executive Staff, he is responsible for the operations
and administrative support of the overseas offices, as well
as the FBI's Visitor/Protocol, Passport and Visa Programs.
He supervises FBI Agent and support personnel assigned to
Interpol's National Central Bureau in Washington, D.C., the
United Nations office in New York, Interpol's General Secretariat
in Lyon, France, as well as Europol's headquarters in The
Hague, Netherlands. In September 2006, Mr. Fuentes was elected
to the Executive Committee of Interpol, serving as a Delegate
for the Americas. Mr. Fuentes continues to establish innovative
international working groups such as the recently established
FBI/Ministry of Public Security of the Peoples Republic of
China Working Group.
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