Frank Figliuzzi

Frank Figliuzzi retired as the FBI’s Assistant Director for counterintelligence after 25 years as an FBI Special Agent. He held senior leadership positions in major American cities. He has been a national security contributor for NBC News for almost seven years where he’s appeared on live television 2,000 times. Frank authored a national bestselling book, THE FBI WAY: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence. His second book, LONG HAUL: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers was released in May.

During Mr. Figliuzzi’s career, he was named the FBI's Chief Inspector by then director Robert Mueller, overseeing the most sensitive and complex internal inquiries and audits worldwide, including reviews of all use of lethal force by FBI agents. Previously, Mr. Figliuzzi was the head of a unit in the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility where he made disciplinary decisions involving employees found to have violated FBI policy. Mr. Figliuzzi was the head of the FBI’s Cleveland Division, the second ranking official in the FBI’s Miami Division, and a supervisor in the FBI’s San Francisco field office. Appointed an Assistant Director in 2010, Mr. Figliuzzi was based at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., and directed all espionage investigations across the U.S. government. Mr. Figliuzzi frequently briefed the White House, Congress, and the Attorney General. He has led hundreds of investigations resulting in the arrests and convictions of numerous spies, terrorists, white collar criminals and corrupt public officials. While in Miami, Frank was the on-scene commander of the largest HAZMAT crime scene in FBI history at the site of the nation’s first anthrax murder in Boca Raton, Florida. Following his FBI career, Frank became a corporate security executive at General Electric where he helped build GE’s insider threat and intellectual property protection programs.

Mr. Figliuzzi earned a JD with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1987, and a BA degree from Fairfield University in 1984. He completed the Harvard University National Security Program for Senior Executives in Government, and he holds a certificate in Leading Strategic Change from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.