Mr Ruben Rodriguez

Director,
Exploited Child Unit
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Mr. Rodriguez has been with the National Center since 1990, first as the Supervisor of the Case Analysis Unit, then as Director of the Exploited Child Unit in November 1996.

Prior to coming to the National Center, Mr. Rodriguez was a Detective (retired) with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC, where he was assigned to the Intelligence Division. From March 1985 to June 1990 he was assigned to the FBI as an Intelligence Liaison Officer working on Organized Crime.

He attended American University, majoring in Administration of Justice and Maryland University, majoring in Computer Science and Applications.

Mr. Rodriguez has been a quest lecturer at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, VA, The British Senior Police College, Bramshill, England, Interpol, Europol and at several National and International law enforcement conference and symposium speaking on the issues of missing and abducted children and child sexual victimization.

He is the current Chairman of the Legal and Training Subcommittee of the Interpol, Standing Working Group on Offenses against Minor, a U.S. Representative to The UN Committee on Education Science Culture (UNESCO), and a technical advisor to U.S. Department of Justice's Internet Crimes against Children Task Forces, Board of Directors.

Mr. Rodriguez is an instructor on The Department of Justices national training initiatives titled "Protecting Children Online".