Kieran Ramsey

After a 32 year career in federal law enforcement and the U.S. Intelligence Community, Kieran Ramsey joined the firm Global Reach to continue his personal commitment to bring Americans home. Spearheading massive investigations, to include the Boston Marathon Bombing, the killing of a U.S. diplomat overseas, the assassination of an internationally renowned journalist, and multiple kidnapping/hostage cases, Kieran is able to harness the power of partnership, across agencies and across governments, in direct support of victims and their families.

Kieran most recently served at the FBI’s highest echelon of executive leadership as an Assistant Director and the FBI’s Senior Representative to another U.S. Intelligence Community agency. This assignment required his resourcefulness and expertise to ensure U.S. Intelligence Community capabilities and authorities were fully integrated in not only hostage situations, but across the entire range of national security threats, to include counterterrorism, counterespionage, cyber, and transnational organized crime.

Kieran is a well known leader in the hostage space, having served as the third Director of the U.S. Government’s Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, wherein he led the interagency effort through a period of great change that saw the successful return of numerous hostages and unlawful detainees. He further established deep relationships with former hostages, hostage families, and other hostage advocacy groups, which continue to this day.

Kieran’s other positions across his lengthy career include multiple domestic office postings, as well as cross-cultural assignments as a diplomat and the senior FBI official in U.S. embassies in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. His reputation as a “fixer,” placed him in some of the most challenging assignments, ranging from the Regime Crimes Task Force in Iraq in 2004, to navigating FBI’s support to local law enforcement during the period of civil unrest in Portland, Oregon in 2020. He also led one of the FBI’s Evidence Response Teams in New York in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Kieran has been honored with numerous accolades and awards across his career for a variety of investigations, to include the U.S. Attorney General’s Distinguised Service Award, the Federal Law Enforcement Officer’s Association Award, the International Chief’s of Police Award, and the International Narcotics Officers Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. He is a former adjunct faculty member for the FBI and currently serves as a guest lecturer at the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.