Monique Laurent (born 1960)[1] is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization.

[2] Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and operations research at Tilburg University.

[3] Laurent earned a doctorate from Paris Diderot University in 1986, under the supervision of Michel Deza.

[2] With Deza, Laurent is the author of the book Geometry of Cuts and Metrics (Algorithms and Combinatorics 15, Springer, 1997).

[6] She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to discrete and polynomial optimization and revealing interactions between them".