Dr. Arturo Laurent is currently Program Officer for the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria. In the UK, he was a Legal Adviser to the Police Forces in England and Wales (PNLD). In 2007, he was appointed by the Lord Chancellor as Magistrate to the Criminal Courts in England and Wales.
As a diplomat and in the international fora, he was Legal Attaché to the Office of the Attorney General and Minister to the Mexican Permanent Mission in Vienna, participating in several Expert Working Groups of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as both a governmental and independent expert.
