Monique Laurent is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a professor at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she leads the Networks and Optimization group. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University. Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.She worked at CNRS from 1988 to 1997, when she moved to CWI. She took a second position at Tilburg in 2009.