Paul Delacourt

"Paul Delacourt retired from the FBI in May 2021 after a 25-year career in law enforcement.

Mr. Paul D. Delacourt is a Director of Programs with Red River Technology in Chantilly, Virginia. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Chicago Graham School, where he teaches Intelligence and Analysis. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Delacourt was the Assistant Director of the FBI's Strategic Realignment Program Management Office in Washington, DC.

He led an executive team that oversaw three operational divisions, intelligence, and mission services, as well as nearly 1500 employees spread across the Central District of California's seven counties, for the previous three years as the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office.

For three years, Paul Delacourt was the special agent in charge of the FBI's Honolulu field office. At the FBIHQ Inspection Division in Washington, D.C., he was formerly in charge of field office inspections, national programs, shooting occurrences, and special projects.


In 1995, Mr. Delacourt joined the FBI as a special agent. He began his career as a gang and drug investigator in the Chicago Division. After 9/11, he worked in the Counterterrorism program in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, Georgia.

Mr. Paul Delacourt worked for the Administration Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO), a Department of Justice project tasked with investigating war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Saddam Hussein and others during the previous Iraqi administration. He worked with the Regime Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO), a counter-terrorism organization, and held temporary positions with the FBI's Guantánamo Bay Task Force, as well as deployments to Afghanistan, Qatar, and Iraq.

From 2009 to 2011, he worked as an FBI liaison officer for a counter-narcotics task team at US Pacific Command's Camp Smith in Hawaii. He was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division in 2012, and then to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division again in 2013. Paul earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University Law School."