Executive Director, Europol
Robert Wainwright was appointed Executive Director of Europol in April 2009 and reappointed in 2013. Under his command Europol has also established the new European Counter Terrorism Centre and European Migrant Smuggling Centre, both in 2016. He was formally the Chief of the International Department of the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). Prior to that he was Director International of the UK National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), where he was responsible for its international operations and for developing and implementing the UK strategy against facilitated illegal immigration. He also managed the UK’s National Central Bureau for Interpol and its Europol National Unit.