Robert W. Warren

Director , Global Maritime Operational Threat Response (MOTR) Coordination Center (GMCC)
U.S. Coast Guard

As Director of the Global MOTR Coordination Center (GMCC) Mr. Robert Warren is responsible for GMCC’s facilitation of the U.S. Government’s interagency response to maritime threats involving U.S. interests worldwide. The MOTR Plan contains operational coordination requirements to ensure quick and decisive action and provides an effective forum to establish desired national outcome, align multi-agency efforts, and facilitate national coordination for the resolution of threats to U.S. interests in the global maritime domain.

Mr. Warren served as an active-duty Coast Guard officer for over 30 years. His military assignments included numerous Coast Guard operational and staff tours, including Chief of Response Operations and later Chief of Staff for the First Coast Guard District, charged with overseeing all Coast Guard operations from New Jersey to the Canadian border, as well as Command of Coast Guard Sector San Juan, responsible for all Coast Guard operations and activities in the eastern Caribbean.

After earning an MBA from University of Maryland, he was assigned as a financial analyst in the Office of Financial Management and later in the Commandant’s Office of International Affairs, where he coordinated the Commandant’s international travel and foreign policy direction in concert with Department of Homeland Security and State Department. Following a master’s in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, he served in the Pentagon on the Joint Staff (J-5) for Strategic Plans and Policy. He served aboard several Coast Guard cutters including Commanding Officer of USCGC TYBEE in San Diego CA. His final Coast Guard tour took him back to Washington DC, where he served as Chief of Congressional and Governmental Affairs, coordinating all Coast Guard engagements with Capitol Hill and other governmental agencies.

After retiring from the Coast Guard, he transitioned to the Department of Justice as Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs for ATF, continuing his Congressional and legislative work on Capitol Hill. In August of 2023 he returned to the Coast Guard and DHS to join the GMCC, as Director.