Ronald K. Noble

Ronald Noble
Noble at the 82nd General Assembly of Interpol in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2013
7th Secretary-General of Interpol
In office 3 November 2000 – 7 November 2014
President	Jesús Espigares Mira Jackie Selebi Arturo Herrera Verdugo Khoo Boon Hui Mireille Ballestrazzi
Preceded by	Raymond Kendall
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born	Ronald Kenneth Noble (1956-09-24) September 24, 1956 (age 61) Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater	University of New Hampshire Stanford Law School

Ronald Kenneth "Ron" Noble (US: /ˈrɒnəld ˈnoʊbəl/; born September 24, 1956) is an American law enforcement officer who served as the secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) from 2000 to 2014. He became the organization's first American and youngest secretary-general at the time of his appointment. Prior to his time there, he worked as a public servant in various government agencies, including the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the Treasury.

Noble was born in Fort Dix, a United States Army post south-east of Trenton, New Jersey, to an African-American father and a German mother. He was raised in nearby Jobstown, where his father worked as a janitor after serving as a master sergeant in the army. Noble attended Northern Burlington County Regional High School before graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration. He later attended Stanford Law School, serving as an editor on the Stanford Law Review and graduating cum laude in 1982.