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 European Network on Statelessness and serves on UNHCR's Advisory Board of Organisations led by the forcibly displaced and stateless. In 2024, he co-founded the Blockchain for Human Rights consortium, bringing together stateless-led and exile-led coalitions to work together to advocate for responsible use of blockchain technology in digitization of identification.

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 statelessness with Oxford’s FMR, Cambridge’s CJPLA, the Swiss Refugee Council, and the Statelessness & Citizenship Review.