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Katrina W. Berger leads a diverse workforce of more than 10,000 personnel in over 320 offices across the globe by providing strategic direction and operational oversight while fostering worldwide partnerships to safeguard the national security, public safety, and integrity of the United States.

Ms. Berger assumed the role of Executive Associate Director in July 2023. Prior to this assignment, she served as the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) for HSI Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Berger began her distinguished federal law enforcement career in 1998 as a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service in Tampa, Florida. Ms. Berger has held many key leadership positions within the agency: serving as the Assistant Director for the Mission Support Division in HSI Headquarters; Chief of Staff for the ICE Deputy Director; the Deputy Assistant Director of Domestic Operations; and the Deputy Assistant Director for the Transnational Crime & Public Safety Division. She also served as the SAC in Dallas, Texas and Deputy Special Agent in Charge in New Orleans, Louisiana. Moreover, Ms. Berger was the first Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Fusion Center.

Prior to entering federal law enforcement, Ms. Berger served as an Assistant Public Defender in the Florida Keys and Tampa, Florida. She also served as an Assistant Attorney General with the Office of the Attorney General in Tampa, Florida.

Ms. Berger received her Bachelor of Arts in History at Virginia Tech, her Juris Doctorate at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, and her master’s in criminal justice at Loyola University.