Dr. Noone is the Executive Director and a Senior Peace Fellow for the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG). In addition to managing several transitional justice and human rights documentation initiatives at PILPG, Dr. Noone has worked as a Senior Program Officer for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). While at USIP, Dr. Noone received a Special Act Award for his work in Afghanistan.
Dr. Noone is a retired Captain (O-6) in the United States Navy with over 30 years of service as a judge advocate, multiple deployments, and held command three times. Dr. Noone has trained senior military, governmental, and non-governmental civilian personnel in the Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, and other international law topics in over sixty countries (and has been to 96 countries).
Dr. Noone has also worked as a government prosecutor and a criminal defense counsel and appears regularly as a commentator on international and national TV and radio.
In 2012, Dr. Noone was appointed by the United Nations to an Independent Experts Panel tasked to review the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight.
Dr. Noone was recognized as the 2012 West Virginia Professor of the Year.
