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Paul Delacourt retired from the FBI in May 2021, following a distinguished 25-year career in law enforcement.

Paul is currently the Managing Partner at Stratagem Consulting, LLC, where he and the Stratagem team provide executive consulting on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, business development, and cyber risk awareness. Paul is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Chicago Graham School, teaching a Master's degree course in Intelligence and Analysis. Mr. Delacourt retired as the Assistant Director of the Strategic Realignment Program Management Office at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC.

He previously served as the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office for three years, leading an executive team with oversight of three operational divisions, intelligence, and mission services, and including nearly 1500 employees across the seven counties of the Central District of California.

Mr. Delacourt served three years as the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Honolulu field office. Prior to that, he served in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters (FBIHQ) in Washington, D.C., where he led reviews of field offices, national programs, shooting incidents, and special projects.

Mr. Delacourt began his career as a special agent with the FBI in 1995. He was first assigned to the Chicago Division, where he worked on gang and drug investigations. Following 9/11, he transferred to the Counterterrorism program, working in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA.

Mr. Delacourt had temporary assignments to the Guantanamo Bay Task Force at FBIHQ and deployments to Afghanistan, Qatar, and Iraq. He served as the program manager for the Regime Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO), a presidentially mandated Department of Justice Initiative created to investigate war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity committed by Saddam Hussein and others of the former Iraqi regime.

From 2009 to 2011, he served as 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. Mr. Delacourt earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School.