Leadership

Director, Office of International Affairs,
Michael E. Feinberg

Michael E. Feinberg serves as the acting director of the ICE Office of International Affairs (OIA). Previously, Mr. Feinberg served as the ICE attaché for Frankfurt , Germany , from 2004–2007. With 21 years of federal law enforcement experience, Mr. Feinberg brings a wealth of expertise to OIA on a wide range of issues related to international crime, including money laundering, narcotics trafficking, intellectual property rights violations and more.

Mr. Feinberg joined the former U.S. Customs Service in 1985 as a cooperative education student in Washington, D.C. One year later, he joined the service as a criminal investigator in the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office. He worked in the marine enforcement branch until 1990, when he was promoted to special agent.

In 1991, he was transferred to the Miami Special Agent in Charge office working undercover money laundering investigations. In 1993 Mr. Feinberg was transferred to the Nassau, Bahamas, office where he focused on narcotics interdiction, working with the Drug Enforcement Administration on Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos (OPBAT).

In 1997, Mr. Feinberg was promoted to Resident Agent in Charge of the Columbia, S.C., office where he directed the office’s operations.

In 1999, Mr. Feinberg moved to U.S. Customs Service headquarters in Washington, D.C., where headed the textile enforcement program in the Fraud Investigations Division. In 2001, he was again promoted to a supervisor in Fraud Investigations, where he oversaw program operations for tobacco smuggling, textile enforcement, forced child labor and prison labor, as well as many others. In this role, Mr. Feinberg helped establish the Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a joint venture with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the Tobacco Smuggling Task Force.

In 2002, he was promoted to director of the Special Operations Division, where his unit was responsible for dismantling the command and control structures of international money laundering organizations.

In 2003, he transferred to the ICE Office of Foreign Operations, where he served as area director for Europe and Africa. While in this assignment, he was appointed acting director of foreign operations for the agency. In this role, Mr. Feinberg took a leadership role in the formulation and transition of the legacy Customs attaché offices to ICE.

A graduate of the University of South Florida, Mr. Feinberg currently resides in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with his wife of 22 years and his two daughters.

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