Names, dates and nationalities of INTERPOL’s former presidents since 1923.
Kim Jong Yang
2018-2021
Republic of Korea
![INTERPOL President Kim Jong Yang](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/7/7/3/5/115377-3-eng-GB/President Kim Official Portrait 2019.jpg)
Meng Hongwei
2016-2018
China
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/1/3/4/114315-1-eng-GB/2016 Meng.jpg)
Mireille Ballestrazzi
2012-2016
France
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/2/3/4/114325-1-eng-GB/2012 Ballestrazzi.jpg)
Khoo Boon Hui
2008-2012
Singapore
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/0/3/4/114305-1-eng-GB/2008 Khoo.jpg)
Jackie Selebi
2004-2008
South Africa
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/8/2/4/114281-1-eng-GB/2004 Selebi.jpg)
Jesús Espigares-Mira
2000-2004
Spain
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/9/2/4/114295-1-eng-GB/2000 Espigares-Mira.jpg)
Toshinori Kanemoto
1996-2000
Japan
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/7/2/4/114275-1-eng-GB/1996 Kanemoto.jpg)
Björn Eriksson
1994-1996
Sweden
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/9/3/2/4/114239-1-eng-GB/1994 Eriksson.jpg)
Norman D. Inkster
1992-1994
Canada
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/2/2/4/114225-1-eng-GB/1992 Inkster.jpg)
Ivan Barbot
1988-1992
France
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/3/2/4/114231-1-eng-GB/1988 Barbot.jpg)
John R. Simpson
1984-1988
United States
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/0/2/4/114201-1-eng-GB/1984 Simpson.jpg)
Jolly R. Bugarin
1980-1984
Philippines
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/1/2/4/114211-1-eng-GB/1980 Bugarin.jpg)
Carl G. Persson
1976-1980
Sweden
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/6/2/4/114261-1-eng-GB/1976 Persson.jpg)
William Leonard Higgitt
1972-1976
Canada
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/9/1/4/114195-1-eng-GB/1972 Higgitt.jpg)
Paul Dickopf
1968-1972
Federal Republic of Germany
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/6/1/4/114165-1-eng-GB/1968 Dickopf.jpg)
Firmin Franssen
1964-1968
Belgium
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/7/1/4/114175-1-eng-GB/1964 Franssen.jpg)
Fjalar Jarva
1963-1964
Finland
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/1/8/1/4/114181-1-eng-GB/1963 Jarva.jpg)
Sir Richard L. Jackson
1960-1963
United Kingdom
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/5/2/4/114255-1-eng-GB/1960 Jackson.jpg)
Agostinho Lourenco
1956-1960
Portugal
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/5/1/4/114155-1-eng-GB/1956 Lourenco.jpg)
Florent Louwage
1945-1956*
Belgium
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/4/1/4/114145-1-eng-GB/1946 Florent Louwage.jpg)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
1943-1945*
Germany
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/8/8/5/2/302588-1-eng-GB/1943-1944_Ernst Kaltenbrunner.jpeg)
Arthur Nebe
1942-1943*
Germany
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/8/9/5/2/302598-1-eng-GB/1942-1943_Arthur Nebe.png)
Reinhard Heydrich
1940-1942*
Germany
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/4/0/6/2/302604-1-eng-GB/1940-1942_Reinhard Heydrich.jpeg)
Otto Steinhäusl
1938-1940*
Germany
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/2/0/6/2/302602-1-eng-GB/1938-1940_Otto Steinhäusl.jpeg)
Michael Skubl
1935-1938*
Austria
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/3/1/4/114135-1-eng-GB/1935 Michael Skubl.jpg)
Eugen Seydel
1934-1935*
Austria
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/3/9/5/2/302593-1-eng-GB/1934-1935_Eugen Seydel.jpeg)
Franz Brandl
1932-1934*
Austria
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/2/1/4/114125-1-eng-GB/1932 Franz Brandl.jpg)
Johannes Schober
1923-1932*
Austria
![](https://www.interpol.int/var/interpol/storage/images/_aliases/medium/5/1/1/4/114115-1-eng-GB/1923 Schober.jpg)
*Presidents of the International Criminal Police Commission, the precursor to INTERPOL.
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