Jérôme Mangelinckx has been appointed Director of the Research Centre on Drugs and Human Rights. He received a Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Translation (Brussels) and pursued post graduate studies in Czech Studies at Charles University in Prague. He has taught in several universities in Peru and has worked for several agencies and NGOs at international level focusing on international law, empowerment of women and women's rights, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), climate change, trade in arms, drug control, illicit drug trafficking, among others.