Émile Noël OMRI (Istanbul, 17 November 1922 – Viareggio, 24 August 1996) was a senior French European Union official.
In 1952, he was seconded by the Council of Europe to act as director of the secretariat of the constitutional committee of the ad hoc assembly tasked by the six member states of the European Coal and Steel Community to prepare plans for a European Political Community (EPC).
He was subsequently appointed head of Guy Mollet's private office, then Deputy Director when the socialists returned to power in France in 1956.
He acted as intermediary between Matignon and Jean Monnet's Action Committee for the United States of Europe.
[1] He was very close to the Commission's Spokesman Beniamino Olivi and to the chefs de cabinet of the successive Presidents of the Commission (including Pascal Lamy), and he left his mark on the institution: influence of French administrative principles, use of French as vehicular language, sense of mission in the service of the Community ideal.