Darrin Jones

Speaker Bio

Darrin E. Jones has been seconded to INTERPOL, to serve as the Executive Director Partnerships and Planning. Mr Jones will began his assignment at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France in September 2023

Mr Jones began his FBI career in September 1997 as a Special Agent in the Salt Lake City Division where he investigated international drug trafficking, cybercrime, and helped lead the counterterrorism planning for the 2002 Olympics. In 2003, Mr Jones was promoted to supervisor in the Office of Congressional Affairs at FBI Headquarters, where he served as a liaison for the FBI regarding technical matters with members of Congress and their staff.

In 2005, Mr Jones was assigned as a supervisor to the FBI's Operational Technology Division (OTD) at Quantico, Virginia. In this role, he was responsible for the creation of the FBI's Technical Liaison Office and the cultivation of close working relationships between the FBI and high technology companies both foreign and domestic.

In 2007, Mr Jones was assigned to the Albuquerque Division as supervisor overseeing the division's Cyber Program. In this role, Mr Jones managed criminal cyber cases as well as national security intrusion investigations. In 2009, while assigned to the Albuquerque Division, Mr Jones was responsible for coordinating the building of the FBI-led New Mexico Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory (NMRCFL), providing state-of-the-art digital forensics services to the law enforcement and national security communities. Following its completion, Mr Jones served as the Director of the NMRCFL.

In 2011, Mr Jones was appointed Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of the Anchorage Field Office. Two years later, Mr Jones returned to Washington, D.C., where he was named section chief of the Communications Intercept Section, OTD. Mr Jones oversaw technical and policy matters associated with criminal and national security electronic communications interception.

Mr Jones was appointed as Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) of the Kansas City Division in March 2017. In this position, Mr Jones oversaw Kansas City Division headquarters and its eight satellite offices that together cover the state of Kansas and Western District of Missouri.

In June of 2019, Mr Jones returned to Washington, D.C., and was appointed as the Assistant Director of the FBI’s IT Infrastructure Division.

In April 2020, Mr Jones was appointed as the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s Science & Technology Branch. In this capacity, he led the over 5,000 technical professionals and executives that comprise the FBI’s Laboratory Division (LD), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, and Operational Technology Division (OTD). In May 2022, Mr Jones returned to his home in Kansas City, briefly serving as Assistant Director for Strategic Technology Policy, before taking up his current secondment at INTERPOL, in Lyon.

Mr Jones earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska, and an advanced certification in Information Security from Carnegie-Mellon University. A native of Nebraska, Mr Jones is married and the father of two children.