William Evanina
NSAC Member
Former Director, National Counterintelligence and Security
Center
William Evanina was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 6, 2020 as the first Senate-confirmed Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). Mr. Evanina served as the Director of NCSC from June 2, 2014, until January 2021. In this position, he was the head of Counterintelligence (CI) for the U.S. Government. Mr. Evanina was responsible for leading and supporting the CI and security activities of the US intelligence community, the U.S. government, and U.S. private sector entities at risk from intelligence collection or attack by foreign adversaries.
Mr. Evanina served over 31 years of distinguished federal service, 24 of which he spent as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). At the start of his law enforcement career in 1996, he investigated organized crime and violent crimes through the FBI’s Newark Field Office. He then served on an FBI SWAT unit for 10 years, ultimately supervising this unit. He led some of the highest profile terrorism investigations in our nation’s history including the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks, and the Daniel Pearl kidnapping. During his tenure with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Mr. Evanina was selected as a Supervisory Special Agent and received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence for his leadership in the investigation into convicted spy Leandro Aragoncillo.