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 4 unified operations:

  • operations
  • immigration and settlement
  • international operations and visas
  • 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 executive board has the following members:

  • Rob Whiteman, chief executive
  • David Wood, director of operations and deputy chief executive officer
  • Michael Parsons, director of resources and organisational development
  • Emma Churchill, director of strategy and assurance
  • Michael Wells, director of immigration and settlement
  • Hugh Ind, director of crime and enforcement
  • Jonathan Sedgwick, director of international operations and visas
  • Susannah Simon, director of migration, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
  • Jeremy Oppenheim, adviser on growth and engagement.

In addition to the executive board, a strategic board with non-executive directors sets the strategic direction for the agency. A senior police officer serves on the board as a non-executive director, as does a senior official from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The non-executive directors are:

  • Philip Augar, non-executive chair
  • Mark Rowley, non-executive director
  • Katherine Kerswell, non-executive director
  • Graham Sims, non-executive director
  • Mark Thomson, non-executive director
  • Richard Foster, non-executive director
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.