Lin Homer

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Lin Homer is head of the UK Border Agency. She was born in Norfolk and educated in Suffolk. After attending university in London she qualified as a lawyer in Reading before spending 15 years at Hertfordshire and joining Suffolk as chief executive in 1998. From Suffolk she went to be the chief executive of Birmingham City Council. Her time there was controversial Birmingham Post article 2005 After three years there she joined the civil service as the head of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in August 2005.

Her leadership of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, (later to be renamed Border and Immigration Agency and, later still, the UK Border Agency), has also been marred by controversy, most notably the scandals concerning the failure to deport foreign national criminals which led to the resignation of the then Home Secretary Charles Clarke.