Paul Delacourt retired from his prominent role in the FBI in May 2021 after a 25-year career marked by dedicated service and high achievement in law enforcement.
Currently, he serves as the Managing Partner at Stratagem Consulting, LLC. Here, he and his team specialize in providing executive consulting services focused on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, business development, and cyber risk awareness. Additionally, Paul is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Chicago Graham School, where he teaches a Master's course in Intelligence and Analysis. His retirement came after his final position as the Assistant Director of the Strategic Realignment Program Management Office at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC.
His tenure at the FBI included a significant role as the Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles field office. During his three years in this position, he led an executive team responsible for three operational divisions, intelligence, and mission services, supervising nearly 1500 employees across the seven counties of the Central District of California.
He also spent three years as the special agent in charge of the Honolulu field office. Before that, he worked in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he oversaw reviews of field offices, national programs, shooting incidents, and special projects.
His FBI career began in 1995 when he was first assigned to the Chicago Division. There, he initially focused on gang and drug investigations. After the events of 9/11, he shifted to the Counterterrorism program, working in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, GA.
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His career also included temporary assignments to the Guantanamo Bay Task Force at FBI Headquarters, as well as deployments to Afghanistan, Qatar, and Iraq. He notably served as the program manager for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO), a presidentially mandated Department of Justice Initiative designed to investigate war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity committed by Saddam Hussein and other members of the former Iraqi regime.
From 2009 to 2011, he was the FBI liaison officer to a counter-narcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii. In 2012, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division. Paul Delacourt earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School, enriching his formidable career with substantial educational credentials.