Heike Lautenschlager Profile

Heike Lautenschlager joined ILO’s Labour Migration Branch in October 2016. As Technical Officer, she provides technical support to the areas of crisis migration, labour migration projects in Africa, and the Fair Recruitment Initiative.

Prior to joining MIGRANT and since 2012, Heike served as the Technical Officer for the ASEAN TRIANGLE Project in the ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. The project worked to strengthen the regional labour migration governance framework in the ASEAN to better protect migrant workers. Before her assignments with ILO, Heike spent several years working with non-government organizations in Australia, Cambodia and Peru on the issues of trafficking in persons and support to refugee populations.

Heike graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Masters in Social Development (Refugees and Forced Migration) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Business Economics, Finance and Spanish).

Working languages: English, German, and Spanish.