With international professional experience in West, Central, and East Africa, the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, in addition to three years of professional experience in Latin America, Abbati is the current Director of the Liaison and Partnership Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Brazil. Between 2016 and 2020, she served as a senior law enforcement advisor at the UNODC Regional Office for West and Central Africa in Senegal, where she led the Organized Crime and Illicit Trafficking Section, covering 22 countries, providing assistance to national priorities and promoting international cooperation. She led the development and implementation management of a broad portfolio of programs covering the fight against drug trafficking, organized crime, maritime crime, human trafficking, and money laundering. She coordinated one of UNODC’s major global programs, AIRCOP, aimed at strengthening the capacities of international airports in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Europe to detect and intercept drugs, other illicit goods, and high-risk passengers. Abbati holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the Free International University for Social Studies L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli, in Rome, Italy.