Carsten Meywirth

Carsten Meywirth has been the Head of the Cybercrime Department of the Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Criminal Police Office) since it was founded in April 2020. He joined Bundeskriminalamt in 1987, after his police training with the Lower Saxony police force. Over more than thirty years of service, Carsten has held various managerial positions in the central services and organized and general crime departments, including managing various projects in the IT department. In 2008, he became the Head of Staff for the IT director. Further, he led the cybercrime group within the organized and serious crime department for three years and, from 2016, the central logistics tasks group in the central administration department.