Laurel Vaurasi

Early life Vaurasi got a degree in law from the Bond University and a postgraduate from the Queensland University of Technology in 1997.

Laurel began her professional career as a legal assistant at the Native Land Trust Board and in 1996 moved to Australia to work, first in Queensland at the Public Prosecutor's Office and then in New South Wales in the private sector the following year. She also worjed for the High Court of Australia in August 1998.

Laurel has particular expertise in civil, commercial, contractual and criminal law and is a mediator and member of the Singapore Mediation Centre. In 2015, Vaurasi condemned the threats and possible attacks against the lawyer Aman Ravindra Singh, who was investigating individuals accused of sedition. She was succeeded on 19 September 2020 by William Wylie Clarke.

She was elected member of the FIFA Football Tribunal's Dispute Resolution Chamber in September 2021, receiving the unanimous support of the 11 Oceania nations.