By Steve Neavling
The FBI has appointed two longtime agents to lead its high-profile field offices in New York and Washington, D.C., the bureau announced Thursday.
Christopher G. Raia has been named assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office, while Steven J. Jensen will serve in the same role at the Washington Field Office. Both bring decades of experience in counterterrorism, national security, and violent crime.
Raia most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, where he oversaw international counterterrorism operations. He joined the FBI as a special agent in 2003 and spent a decade in Texas investigating violent crime, gangs, and white-collar offenses. He later held leadership roles in the Houston Field Office and served as chief of staff to the executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch.
Raia is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and served as a Coast Guard officer in Florida before joining the FBI.
Jensen, who most recently led the Columbia Field Office in South Carolina, joined the FBI in 2006. He was first assigned to the New York Field Office, where he worked health care fraud, domestic terrorism, and Asian organized crime cases. He later served as a firearms instructor at the FBI Academy and held leadership posts in the Chicago and Jackson field offices.
In 2020, Jensen was named section chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section at headquarters. He later became deputy assistant director of the Training Division, overseeing the FBI’s basic field training and National Academy programs.
Before joining the FBI, Jensen was a police officer in Colorado Springs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Stony Brook University and a master’s in leadership studies from Northeastern University.
