Bernard Leroy
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Bernard Louis Fernand Leroy (Pierreville, 26 June 1948 – Paris, 20 February 2023)[1] was a French magistrate and international civil servant.
Trained in law at Caen and at the magistrates’ school in Bordeaux, he began his career as an investigating judge in Évry.[2]
In 1988 he joined the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria to combat drug trafficking; he later led the UNODC legal assistance program (1990–2010).[3]
Elected to the International Narcotics Control Board in 2014 and again in 2019,[4] he later served as advocate general in Versailles and headed an organization of pharmaceutical companies fighting counterfeit medicines.
Towards the end of his life, he began a dialogue with organisations of people who use cannabis in relation to cannabis legalisation[5][6] and discussions around Article 2 paragraph 9 of the Single Convention on narcotic drugs.[7][8]
He died in Paris in 2023 and is buried in Pierreville.[4]
