Aleksejs Ivashuk is the Founder of Apatride Network, a coalition of stateless individuals, communities and stateless-led organisations working on addressing statelessness in the EU. He is also an associate member of ENS, Co-Lead of Global Movement Against Statelessness, and serves on UNHCR's Advisory Board of Organisations led by the forcibly displaced and stateless.

Previously, Aleksejs worked for Thomson Reuters, IPSA International, the Green Party of Canada, the U.S. Senate, and was actively involved with the Canadian Red Cross in its First Response and Disaster Management programs. He holds a Political Science MA from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published on the topic of statelessness with Oxford’s FMR and Swiss Refugee Council.