Kieran L. Ramsey, who has served as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Oregon Field Office since January 2021, will soon become one of the bureau’s deputy assistants in Washington, D.C.
The 51-year-old’s last day in Oregon is Jan. 5, the Oregonian reports.
Ramsey said his greatest pride was cultivating partnerships between the FBI and local and state law enforcement agencies, community groups, and businesses. Those partnerships were strained amid the nightly social justice protests in 2020, with demonstrators often rioting and clashing with federal officers.
Ramsey also spoke about law enforcement’s attempts to combat the scourge of fentanyl.
“It’s an all-hands-on-deck approach,” Ramsey said.
Ramsey joined the FBI as a special agent in the Seattle Field Office in 1998.
In 2005, Ramsey became supervisory special agent and worked in the Counterterrorism HUMINT Operations Unit at FBI headquarters.
In 2007, he was promoted to legal attaché in Cairo, where he served as the principal FBI official for U.S. embassies in Egypt, Sudan, and Libya.
In 2019, Ramsey was tapped as supervisory senior resident agent of the New Hampshire offices under the Boston Field Office, where he also directed the New Hampshire Safe Streets Task Force and the New Hampshire Joint Terrorism Task Force.
In 2013, he became assistant special agent in charge of the Boston’s Counterterrorism Branch and led the Boston Marathon Bombing Task Force.
In 2017, he served as legal attaché in Rome in 2017, covering Italy, The Holy See, and Malta.
Ramsey was promoted to section chief in 2018 and named the director of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell (MRFC), an interagency that leads the U.S. government’s efforts to recover U.S. national hostages held abroad.
Before joining the bureau, Ramsey was a special agent with the U.S. Customs Service. He received a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University in Boston and a master’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington.
