Phil Noble

In 1996, Noble founded PoliticsOnline, the premier international company providing news, tools and strategies for the civic sector globally. The company’s products and services have been used by over 900 clients in over 50 countries. Noble received a BS degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1974 after independent undergraduate study at Cambridge University in England. He also did graduate study at the University of Stockholm. He then worked as a Legislative Assistant in the US Senate and in 1979 started Phil Noble and Associates, a political and public affairs consulting firm. The firm has been involved in more than 350 corporate, public affairs projects and political campaigns in the 40 states and 35 countries. Noble annually taught a course on Campaigns, Democracies and the Internet at the University of Amsterdam. In Feb. 2001, he was a Resident Fellow of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. He also serves on various advisory and editorial boards at ten other colleges and universities in the US and internationally. Noble, was a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1994 and currently serves as President of the SC New Democrats. He was also founder of the Palmetto Project and One Laptop Per Child SC. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his wife and two children.