Lukas Gahleitner-Gertz is lawyer and spokesperson of asylkoordination österreich, a platform for NGOs working in the areas of asylum and integration in Austria. He is the editor of the annual AIDA report, the civil-society shadow report on developments and the status of the Austrian asylum and integration system.

Before that, he used to work as policy officer for Amnesty International Austria; and even before that, he spent 5 years as a legal trainee at Maria Windhager’s media law firm. He studied Law at the University of Innsbruck where he first got into contact with his current area of activity: As a volunteer, he interpreted for the organisation ARGE Schubhaft. As a next step, he provided legal advice and representation for 15 years to asylum seekers, including illegalised individuals, at the Vienna-based Desertion and Refugee Counselling organisation.