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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 a special agent of the FBI and assigned to the Chicago Field Office, where he served for 10 years, including two years as an Organized Crime Task Force Supervisor.
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 Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field Office, where he managed the Organized Crime/Drug, White Collar Crime, and SWAT Programs. 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. 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 (IACP); 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, 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. 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 (OIO); in May 2007 he was promoted to Assistant Director, managing 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 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, and 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. He is a 2007 graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute and a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police International Policing Division Steering Committee. 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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