Deputy Assistant Commissioner
Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
As Deputy Assistant Commissioner for INA, Clint Lamm helps lead coordination of CBP overseas initiatives, programs and activities that safeguard Americans through combating terrorism and transnational organized crime, enforcing trade and cargo security, controlling irregular migration, and providing capacity building to foreign partners. INA focuses on international cooperation and strong relationships to serve United States interests in securing our borders.
Previously, Mr. Lamm was assigned to the Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, where he assisted the formulation of domestic and international counter-narcotics policy and counter-criminal networks initiatives such as the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas and Homeland Security Task Forces. He was the Director of the Preclearance Field Office from 2018 through 2021, leading more than 600 CBP officers deployed overseas to enforce United States border laws for travelers and goods boarding commercial conveyances destined to the United States at 16 airports in 6 countries.
Mr. Lamm was the Area Port Director in Boston, where he led CBP officers and personnel conducting inspections of all travelers, cargo and commodities entering the United States at the ports of entry in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. He has also served as Executive Director in several critical agency offices, including the CBP’s Law Enforcement and Safety Compliance Directorate, Labor and Employee Relations, and in establishing the agency’s Alternative Funding Programs office where he spearheaded public-private partnerships with local governments and corporations to provide reimbursable port services and contributions of infrastructure and equipment that enhanced CBP’s processing capabilities.
Mr. Lamm began his law enforcement career in 1998 and has worked air, land and marine operations, including internationally. He has been in the Senior Executive Service since 2018, is a graduate of the CBP Leadership Institute (University of Chicago), the DHS SES Development Program (American University), and the Kennedy School’s Executive Leaders in Government (Harvard). Mr. Lamm holds a Master of Arts in Diplomacy from Norwich University and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM MT