Ben Brewer is a Program Officer and member of IREX’s Communities & Governance practice. His work is focused on labor migration and ethical recruitment, as part of IREX’s strategy to strengthen migrant labor rights in the First Mile. He is currently working on the Navigator program in Nepal and Ambulantes program in Mexico.

Prior to joining IREX in 2021, Ben worked in the Greek NGO sector where he coordinated  refugee support projects: one by Greece’s northern border with North Macedonia managing a team of international volunteers (both refugees and European citizens), and another in Thessaloniki providing free legal information on asylum processes. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Ben served as an intern with a resettlement center of the International Rescue Committee.

Ben holds an MSc in International Development from the University of Edinburgh and speaks Spanish and English.