LUIS PEREZ, Country Attache for UK, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations

•   Luis Perez was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and was raised in Jacksonville, FL. He graduated from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL in 1991 with a B.A. in International Affairs. In 1999, Luis obtained the certification of Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and has been a contributing member since that time.

•   He began his professional career in 1996 as a Special Agent in the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID)with an assignment in Panama where he conducted numerous felony criminal investigations for the US Army in Central and South America involving violent, white collar and drug crimes ending his tenure there as the Group Supervisor for the Drug Suppression Team.Before that Luis was a Military Police Officer/Military Police Investigator in the U.S. Army from 1992 until his promotion to Special Agent in 1996.

•   Luis began with FDA OCI in October 2000 at the Miami Field Office. Luis conducted counterfeit, adulterated, and misbranded drugs, devices, as well as food and drug tampering investigations throughout the United States, the Caribbean and Central America affecting US Public Health and US Pharmaceutical companies. Luis supervised and managed a Task Force of several undercover officers conducting traditional FDA investigations.

•   In 2007, Luis departed for a position with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) where he supervised and managed an undercover task force which conducted Counter Proliferation investigations. Luis served as the DCIS lead representative at the International Contract and Corruption Task Force Afghanistan, Bagram, Afghanistan, conducting fraud investigations in Afghanistan where the Department of Defense had an interest.

•   In 2012, Luis returned to OCI and was assigned to the Miami Field Office where he supervised and managed a Task Force of several undercover officers conducting Tobacco related investigations as well as traditional FDA investigations. In 2016, Luis was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge and had several different roles supervising at HQS, Budget, Contracts, Asset Forfeiture,the Investigative Analysis Branch, Facilities, Property, the Undercover Programs, and others. In 2021, Luis was selected to be FDA/OCI’s representative at the US Mission in the United Kingdom and reported to the embassy in January 2022. He is due to transfer back to the U.S. in January 2025.

•   Luis likes to spend his time hiking, biking, and running with his wife. Luis has two children, a daughter who graduated and now works at Florida State University (Go Noles!) and a son who is in his second year at the University of Florida.