Martin Verrier is an international security specialist.  He served as Argentina’s Deputy Secretary of State for Drug Enforcement between 2015 to 2019.  Previously, he worked as a senior consultant for international organisations ( IADB, OAS, PADF ),  directing operations at a Buenos Aires security consulting firm and served as Head of the Security Committee Advisor’s Board at the National Parliament.

He is a former Professor of International Relations Theory at the International Relations Department and the Organised Crime Postgraduate course at Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires and was a money-laundering prevention professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.  He has a BA in International Relations from the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires, a MA in Strategy and Geopolitics from the Argentine Army War College, a Postgraduate Certificate in Countering Transnational Organised Crime from the George C. Marshall Centre European Centre for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

He is currently a Chevening  Scholar at Kings College London studying for a MA in Intelligence. He currently resides in London, working as an independent consultant, as a CTOC professor at the George C. Marshall Center European Centre for Security Studies and as a Senior Analyst at RUSI where he researches criminal convergence in South America.