Cofer Black

Cofer Black
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
In office November 26, 2002 – November 15, 2004
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Frank Taylor
Succeeded by	Henry Crumpton
Personal details
Born	Joseph Cofer Black 1950 (age 66–67) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Awards	National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal

Joseph Cofer Black (born 1950) is a former CIA official who was appointed Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter-terrorism by President George W. Bush in December 2002. He led the Office of Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department until his resignation in November 2004. Previously Black had a 28-year career in the Directorate of Operations at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was appointed Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC) in June 1999. Black later became the CEO of The Black Group, a private firm specializing in providing security processes and services to private corporations and government agencies. From 2005 until 2008, Black was Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, a US-based private security firm. He then served as chairman of the privately owned intelligence gathering company Total Intelligence Solutions until his current appointment as the Vice President of Blackbird Technologies, a technology solutions provider based in the Washington DC area.

Black was born in 1950, in Stamford, Connecticut, and early in his childhood lived in Levittown, New York. His father was an airline pilot for PanAm, where he flew Boeing 747s on international routes. For a time, PanAm stationed his father in Germany, and later in his childhood, his father would bring Cofer along to Accra, Ghana or Lagos, Nigeria during school breaks and let him explore the African countryside. In adolescence, Black attended the Canterbury School (Connecticut), an all-boys college-preparatory school.

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