Valdecy Urquiza

Valdecy de Urquiza e Silva Junior (born 1981) is a Brazilian police officer and member of the Federal Police of Brazil. He was appointed by the executive committee of Interpol as secretary general on 25 June 2024 to succeed Jürgen Stock from 2025. Urquiza is the first non-European/American person to be appointed as chief of Interpol since its foundation in 1923.

Biography
Urquiza is graduated in law from the University of Fortaleza, and has MBAs on strategic sustainability management from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and in public administration from IBMEC. Additionally, Urquiza is graduated from the FBI National Academy leadership program.

Interpol
From 2015 to 2018, Urquiza served as the head of Interpol's national bureau in Brazil, during which time he represented the country on various regional police bodies, including Europol and Ameripol. In 2021, Urquiza was elected by Interpol as vice-president for the Americas by the executive committee.