Ricardo de Leon

Ricardo F. de Leon is a Filipino retired police officer who is the current director of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency of the Philippines.

Education De Leon attended the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), graduating from the institution in 1971 as part of the Matatag class. He also attended the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila where he obtained a master's degree in business administration, the Philippine Christian University where he acquired master's degree in management, and at Bicol University where he obtained a doctorate in peace and security studies.

Career Police career De Leon was an officer of the Philippine National Police.

He would return to the Philippines as a lieutenant colonel, and was kept under floating status for a year until he was appointed as the director in Davao del Norte.

He would retire from the Philippine police force on September 10, 2005, as PNP Deputy Chief for Administration when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 56.