Tonya Ugoretz

Tonya Ugoretz was appointed Assistant Director of the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) in April 2022. 

Throughout her career, Ms. Ugoretz has helped grow and elevate the FBI’s intelligence program by innovating ways to deliver the FBI’s insights to decision-makers, producing analysis to meet operational needs, and mentoring others. She has represented the FBI as a leader in multiple interagency assignments and in senior-level national and international settings, including with Cabinet-level officials, the National Security Council, and Congress. Ms. Ugoretz is one of the Bureau’s most visible public speakers, raising awareness of threats to the United States and the FBI’s unique intelligence and law enforcement role in combatting them. 

Ms. Ugoretz began government service in 2001 as a Presidential Management Fellow and all-source analyst in the FBI’s counterterrorism program. She was the first FBI Intelligence Analyst to serve as the Director's Daily Briefer, as a Targeting Analyst with the CIA’s CounterTerrorist Center, and as a Deputy Assistant Director and Acting Assistant Director in the FBI’s Cyber Division. 

Ms. Ugoretz served as a Unit Chief and Section Chief in the DI, and as the FBI's Chief Intelligence Officer. In addition to the CIA, she has served in joint duty positions with Customs and Border Protection, the National Intelligence Council, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where she was the first Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. Earlier in her career, Ms. Ugoretz served as an Adjunct Faculty Member for intelligence training at the FBI Academy, and was a member of the FBI’s Intelligence Analyst Advisory Board. 

Prior to joining the FBI, Ms. Ugoretz was an editor of foreign policy journals and IEEE publications. She received bachelor's degrees in International Relations and in Spanish from Ursinus College, and a master's degree from the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. Ms. Ugoretz has received the Presidential Rank Award, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal from ODNI, and the Director's Award for Exceptionally Meritorious Service from the National Counterterrorism Center.