Andrey Sawchenko

Andrey Sawchenko currently serves as Regional Vice President in Asia Pacific, leading IJM’s programs working with governments, corporations and civil society partners to demonstrate effective models to eradicate forced labour from key industries and recruiting corridors in Southeast Asia, including addressing the most recent issues of forced scamming. Andrey serves as an expert on sustainable supply chains via Justice System Strengthening pathway and prior to this role, Andrey was the Regional Director for IJM in Southern India, working with Indian authorities to end forced labour slavery in the states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Andrey previously also spent 10 years in Thailand and the Philippines leading teams to fight sex trafficking which led to a stunning 72% decrease in the availability of children for commercial sex. Before joining IJM, Andrey was a lawyer in Seattle, USA.

My Sustainability Goals for 2023:

Asia is of high influence and has great opportunities to facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration and partnerships for sustainable supply chains where workers are treated fairly and has the freedom of movement. To enable systemic change, we would need to see an increase in collaborations between businesses, investors, governments and NGOs to create safe communities, where both migrant and local workers in poverty are protected from any potential threats of violence and forced labour slavery.