Andrew Cunningham joined the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in Lisbon, Portugal as a Scientific Analyst in Summer 2012. He is currently in the team responsible for the day-to-day running of the European Union's Early warning system for new psychoactive substances.
Andrew is a forensic chemist who started his police career in 1996 when he was appointed Forensic Chemist at the Strathclyde Police Forensic Science Laboratory in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2001, he took charge of the forensic drug laboratory in Glasgow, one of the busiest of such units in the United Kingdom.
From 2004 to 2012 he was employed as the Forensic Science Manager of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, the police body with the mandate to tackle organised crime in Scotland. Amongst other tasks, he coordinated a network of Scottish forensic scientists at the forefront of monitoring for the emergence of new drugs.
