Deputy Director of ICE Keynote Speaker for Interchange

Kumar C. Kibble will be the keynote speaker for The Partnership for Safe Medicine’s Interchange on October 27, 2011 at the National Press Club.

Kumar C. Kibble is the deputy director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In that capacity, he is the chief operating officer for the principal investigative agency of the Department of Homeland Security, with more than 20,000 employees assigned to more than 400 offices worldwide and an annual budget of almost $6 billion.

Kumar C. Kibble will be the keynote speaker for The Partnership for Safe Medicine’s Interchange on October 27, 2011 at the National Press Club.

Kumar C. Kibble is the deputy director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In that capacity, he is the chief operating officer for the principal investigative agency of the Department of Homeland Security, with more than 20,000 employees assigned to more than 400 offices worldwide and an annual budget of almost $6 billion.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Kibble served in several key leadership roles at ICE headquarters. As the deputy assistant director for the National Security Investigations Division, he was responsible for the agency’s anti-terrorism and counter-proliferation programs. He was later promoted to deputy director and acting director of investigations, responsible for a $1.6 billion annual budget and more than 8,000 employees assigned to more than 200 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) domestic offices throughout the United States.

Mr. Kibble’s field assignments included service as a group supervisor and assistant special agent in charge in the metropolitan Los Angeles, Calif. area. He also served as the special agent in charge for HSI’s regional field office in Denver, responsible for 17 offices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. During each of these field assignments he led transnational criminal investigations targeting illicit travel, trade, finance and immigration.

Mr. Kibble began his government career in 1990 as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. His military service included an eight-month peacekeeping tour in Bosnia where he worked closely with Bosnian mayors and police chiefs, as well as multiple international organizations including the United Nations Office of the High Representative and the International Police Task Force.
Mr. Kibble holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

Learn more about how agencies and industry fight medicine counterfeiting and sales at the 2011 Interchange on October 27 at the National Press Club.

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Mr. Kibble will be filling in for John Morton who is unavailable.