Alfredo Malaret Baldo is the Urban Violence Program Officer at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. Before joining the Kroc Institute, Alfredo served as a Researcher with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), where he coordinated the Development and Urbanization of Violence research portfolios. Prior to UNIDIR, Alfredo worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI); the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC); and for retired United States Ambassador Dennis Jett. To date, Alfredo has completed more than twenty field deployments. He holds master’s degrees in public affairs from Brown University and international affairs and economic development from The Pennsylvania State University.