Rob Whiteman is a senior UK Civil Servant who works as the Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency

UK Border Agency

The UK Border Agency is the border control body of the United Kingdom government and part of the Home Office. It was formed on 1 April 2008 by a merger of the Border and Immigration Agency , UKvisas and the Detection functions of HM Revenue and Customs...

. He was appointed to this role in 2011.
Whiteman had previously worked as the managing director of Local Government Improvement & Development (LGID). A job he had been appointed to in 2010. Between 2005 to 2010 he worked in local government as chief executive of LB Barking & Barking and Dagenham Council. Whiteman was educated at University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

reading for BA in Government and Economics and worked in the private sector with WH Smith plc before moving into local government finance.