In August 2020, Aleksejs founded the first stateless-led organisation (SLO) in Europe in response to systemic gaps in addressing statelessness within the human rights field. As the head of the organisation, he achieved the following:

• Provided over a hundred statelessness guest lectures and workshops to universities, law clinics, UN agencies, and international organisations, and continues to do so, averaging more than a dozen annually.

• Led advocacy efforts influencing European Banking Authority regulatory technical standards, resulting in the recognition of statelessness and refugee status and the introduction of flexible identification requirements allowing alternative credible documentation.

• Oversaw the creation of Statelessness Awareness Forum (Europe)—the only continuous international forum dedicated to addressing statelessness. In its first three editions, the forum has brought together over a hundred participants from over thirty countries to discuss statelessness and plan how to better address it, centring the expertise of those who have direct experience of the subject. 

• Led a breakthrough in advocating UNHCR to remove administrative barriers to stateless people applying for UNHCR jobs, and currently leading efforts to spread the established good practice in other UN agencies.

• Managed Apatride Network’s piloting of the initial stage of the Global Statelessness Fund (GSF), a multi-million dollar fund that addresses systemic underfunding of grassroots initiatives that tackle statelessness. The piloting paved the way for 50+ stateless-led organisations and campaigners all over the world access to much-needed resourcing in the field.

• Brought together several leading stateless-led and exile-led coalitions to form Blockchain for Human Rights consortium, advocating for responsible use of blockchain technology in digitisation of identification.

• Initiated and currently managing several large-scale projects with international law firm partners on financial inclusion, freedom of movement, legal assistance capacity building, and childhood statelessness prevention.