Graeme Biggar has led the National Crime Agency (NCA) since October 2021. The NCA is an intelligence-led law enforcement agency whose mission is to protect the public from serious and organised crime. It does that by leading the operational system response to ensure that police and law enforcement agencies are working together on the most significant threats, and by itself investigating and degrading the most harmful organised crime groups. The NCA also leads for UK policing on operational cooperation internationally.
Graeme initially joined the NCA in March 2019 as the Director General of the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), which is a collaborative, multi-agency centre established to deliver a step change in the response to fraud and money laundering.
Prior to the NCA, Graeme was the Director of National Security in the Home Office, Chief of Staff to the Defence Secretary in the Ministry of Defence and held a range of other senior Civil Service roles.
Graeme has a degree in History from Oxford University and a masters in International Security Studies from the Royal College of Defence Studies and Kings College London. He was awarded a CBE in 2019 in recognition of his services to national security.