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Brian D. Lamkin—Assistant Director, Training Division

Brian D. Lamkin was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received his early education. In 1978, Mr. Lamkin received a Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Music Education from Middle Tennessee State University. In 1980, Mr. Lamkin received a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Louisville. Prior to entering on duty with the FBI, Mr. Lamkin was a certified teacher, music department chairman, and high school band director in the Louisville metropolitan area for nine years.

In February 1987, Mr. Lamkin was appointed as a special agent and was assigned to the Norfolk Division following his training period at Quantico, Virginia. While assigned to the Norfolk Division, Mr. Lamkin specialized in white-collar crime investigations.

In July 1990, Mr. Lamkin was transferred to the Dallas Division as part of the FBI's Dallas Bank Fraud Task Force, which addressed the largest savings and loan failure crisis in U.S. history. In May 1997, Mr. Lamkin was transferred to FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C., as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Financial Institution Fraud Unit, Criminal Investigative Division. During this tour of duty, Mr. Lamkin had national program responsibility of the FBI’s financial institution fraud program and the development of national and international training seminars in these matters. Mr. Lamkin developed the FBI's international course module on financial crimes investigations utilized by the International Law Enforcement Academy, Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Lamkin was the FBI’s representative to the National Bank Fraud Working Group and the FBI’s Law Enforcement and Industry Focus Group, which was comprised of national banking industry representatives. In May 1999, Mr. Lamkin was transferred to the Baltimore Division where he was the White-Collar Crime Program Coordinator and supervised a white-collar crime squad in the Maryland Metropolitan Office at Calverton, Maryland.

In September 2002, Mr. Lamkin was appointed as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Louisville Division, with responsibility for all matters including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal, and National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) investigations.

On December 28, 2003, Mr. Lamkin was promoted to Section Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division. Mr. Lamkin is a frequent speaker on white-collar crime matters, both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Mr. Lamkin has addressed the International Economic Crimes Symposium, Cambridge University; and has spoken on major case and crisis management to the National Police, Border Patrol, and the General Prosecutor's Office in Bucharest, Romania. In addition to his international speaking experience, Mr. Lamkin has written articles for the ABA Banking Journal (1994) and the Buttersworths International Law and Banking Journal (1995) on the criminal exploitation of emerging banking systems in Eastern European countries. In November 2004, Mr. Lamkin was featured in the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's journal for his leadership of the FBI's white-collar crime program and the Financial Crimes Section.

On June 14, 2005, Mr. Lamkin was designated Special Agent in Charge of the Columbia Division.