Noah Kool Yalba (born 10 October 1962) is a Papua New Guinean politician.
[2][3] Kool was a school teacher and member of the Papua New Guinea rugby league team prior to entering politics.
[8][9] In October 2012, he set up a permanent office for the province in Port Moresby to minimise the expense of trips to the capital by provincial public servants.
[10] In February 2013, he was credited with the opening of the Chimbu Teachers College, the first tertiary institution in the province, as a means of developing human resources to support economic growth in what Kool described as a province "geographically rugged and unsuitable for any major economic development.
[12] In late 2015, he repeatedly called for greater aid for the province in response to a devastating drought which had dried up water supplies and destroyed crops, declaring that it had become an "emergency situation".