James Chaparro

James M. Chaparro is a Managing Director in PwC’s Public Sector Advisory Practice. Mr. Chaparro had a distinguished 26 year career in Federal law enforcement and the national Intelligence Community. He served as the Assistant Director for Intelligence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). As the senior intelligence official at ICE, he represented ICE's intelligence needs to the Department of Homeland Security, the national intelligence community and foreign partners. He managed intelligence analysis for key programmatic areas including human trafficking, child exploitation, human smuggling, and other forms of transnational crime. Mr. Chaparro was seconded to the U.S. Department of State where he served as the first Director of the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center (HSTC). In this capacity, he worked closely with U.S. and international partners to enhance intelligence and information sharing related to human smuggling, human trafficking and clandestine terrorist mobility. He also served as the Chair for the Five Eyes Criminal Intelligence Advisory Group, to enhance information sharing and cooperation among key international partners. He served as the lead ICE executive to implement the President’s Strategy to Combat International Organized Crime, and served on numerous White House Policy Coordination Councils to strengthen U.S. Government efforts on a wide range of crime and security issues.