Overview
- Delegates at Interpol’s 93rd General Assembly in Marrakech elected Philippe with 84 votes (51.2%) over Turkey’s Mustafa Serkan Sabanca, who took 60.
- The four-year presidency involves chairing the General Assembly rather than running daily operations.
- At 53, the contrôleur général is a former Paris judicial‑police officer who later served as a security attaché in Libya and Singapore and is the third French national to hold the post.
- He vows to consolidate Interpol’s practical role and simplify access to its tools, and he was publicly backed by French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez.
- Philippe succeeds Ahmed Nasser Al‑Raisi, whose tenure was clouded by torture allegations, in an office previously marred by cases involving Meng Hongwei and Jackie Selebi.