Professional Bio

AnnaMaría Colom (1994) is director of the European Division for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where she oversees international agreements with multiple countries and leads capacity-building initiatives to advance the agency’s priorities and budget allocations. She manages CBP offices at eight U.S. embassies in Europe and represents the agency at the World Customs Organization. Colom earned a degree in international politics with a minor in Spanish from Penn State (1994), a JD from the Inter American University School of Law in Puerto Rico (1998), and an MBA in international business management from Royal Holloway, University of London (2010). Previously, she directed aviation and marine integration at the Department of Homeland Security, where she guided the management of $20 billion in federal assets and chaired the DHS Aviation and Boat Forces Governance Boards. She has also served as a DHS attaché in South America and is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan, and Portuguese.