About Speaker

James Gilley serves as the assistant director of national programs at the National Targeting Center Counter Network Division (NTC CND), located in Sterling, Virginia. The CND is dedicated to leveraging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP's) unique authorities, extensive data holdings, intelligence capabilities and partnerships to identify, disrupt and degrade illicit networks, including terrorist and transnational criminal organizations, that pose threats to the U.S. homeland and its interests. In his role, Gilley oversees policy and stewardship of the Office of Field Operations (OFO) Targeting Enterprise, ensuring integrated program management, mission-aligned training and enhanced operational support. These efforts bolster OFO’s capabilities at local, regional and national levels to identify, target and mitigate national security and other transnational threats at the earliest stages.

Gilley brings a wealth of operational expertise in inspection, intelligence analysis and law enforcement activities, both at and between designated ports of entry, in alignment with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Border Security Mission. His career includes eight years of local law enforcement experience in the Atlanta, Georgia, area and nearly 25 years of CBP service in Washington, D.C.; Jacksonville, Florida; Toronto, Canada; and Brownsville, Texas.

Beginning his CBP career in 2000 as a customs inspector in Brownsville, Texas, Gilley has held various leadership positions, including branch chief of the CBP Office of Intelligence and Investigative Liaison (OIIL) – Analysis Division’s National Post Seizure Analysis Team; assistant director for the OIIL Analysis Division’s Current Intelligence Section; and assistant director of analysis within NTC headquarters’ Targeting Business Division.