Charles R. Black Jr. (born October 11, 1947) is an American lobbyist and businessman, who is the Founding Chairman of Prime Policy Group, a public affairs firm which is now a subsidiary of Burson Cohn & Wolfe.

[3] Black says that he fell in love with politics when he worked on the presidential campaign of Republican Barry Goldwater as a high school student in 1964.

[5][6] Black co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) with Terry Dolan and Roger Stone.

[5] Black went on to work for a succession of Republican presidential campaigns from 1976 to 1992, including those of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

In a 2008 interview with The Atlantic, Black defended BMSK against campaign ads made by MoveOn.org opposing John McCain.

BMSK's CEO was R. Scott Pastrick who was a former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and a supporter of Hillary Clinton.

[10] Prime Policy Group is the result of the merger of two lobbying firms in Washington in 2010, Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly & Associates Worldwide and Timmons & Company.