Our organisation

This page describes the UK Border Agency's organisational structure and the composition of the UK Border Agency board.

We are an agency of the Home Office, and our organisation is divided into 5 unified operations:

• borders
• international
• immigration
• intelligence
• enforcement and crime

Each operational area is led by a director. Our operational areas are supported by 2 corporate service directorates.

The UK Border Agency board sets our strategic direction. A senior police officer serves on the board as a non-executive director, as do senior officials from HM Revenue & Customs and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

The UK Border Agency board comprises the following members:

• Rob Whiteman, chief executive
• Emma Churchill, head of strategy and intelligence
• Matthew Coats, temporary head of border force
• Jeremy Oppenheim, temporary head of immigration group
• Jonathan Sedgwick, head of international group
• David Wood, head of enforcement and crime
• Joe Dugdale, head of human resources and organisational development
• Justin Holliday, head of resource management
• Chief Constable Martin Baker, Dorset Police, non-executive director
• Mike Hawker, non-executive director
• Graham Sims, non-executive director
• Mark Thomson, non-executive director
• Kathryn Bishop, non-executive director

Immigration operations in your region of the UK

Our UK operations are split into 6 UK regions. The regional directors are:

• Gail Adams, regional director, Midlands and East
• Jane Farleigh, regional director, Wales and South West
• Steve Lamb, temporary regional director, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber
• Jo Liddy, regional director, North West
• Hugh Ind, regional director, London and South East
• Phil Taylor, regional director, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Our overseas network

The overseas network consists of 6 regions:

• Africa
• Americas
• Asia-Pacific
• Euro-Med
• South Asia
• Pakistan and the Gulf

For more information, see the Our overseas network page.