Anna Olsen's Profile

Ms Anna Olsen is the Technical Specialist with the Tripartite Action to Enhance the Contribution of Labour Migration to Growth and Development in ASEAN (TRIANGLE II) project. In this role, she works on legal and policy development, assisting with capacity building activities, providing support in drafting of legislation to protect migrants and managing activities for providing direct support to migrant workers in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.

Prior to this role, Anna worked more broadly on issues of human trafficking, labour migration, child protection and women’s rights in South East Asia. She was based in Cambodia for over five years, working with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs as a technical assistant to the Minister, The Asia Foundation as the Prosecution Project Officer for the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Project and with UNICEF and ILO as a consultant on child protection and legislative analysis.

Anna holds a double degree in Arts and Laws (with Honours) from the University of Melbourne and a LLM in Legal Practice from the Australian National University.

Working language - English