Khoo Boon Hui

Tan Sri Khoo Boon Hui (simplified Chinese: 邱文晖; traditional Chinese: 邱文暉; pinyin: Qiū Wén Huī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khu Bûn-hui), born in 1954 in Singapore, is the Senior Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Mr Khoo Boon Hui served as President of INTERPOL from 2008 to 2012, when he was succeeded by Mireille Balestrazzi. He was formerly the Commissioner of the Singapore Police from July 1997 to January 2010.

As a young man, Khoo completed his secondary education at Anglo-Chinese School and was awarded the prestigious Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship (SAFOS) in 1973.

Khoo obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Engineering & Economics) from St John's College, Oxford University in 1976 and his Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard in 1982. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Wharton in 2002.

As a government scholar, after his graduation from Oxford in 1976, he was invited to join the Singapore Police Force (SPF) after a short stint in the Singapore Armed Forces. He began his career in 1977 and has since held various appointments, including Director Strategic Planning in 1987, Police Chief of Staff in 1990, Director of Criminal Investigation Department in 1991 and Deputy Commissioner of Police in 1995.