Alex Au is a vice president of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), Singapore. TWC2 is a non-profit concerned with the rights and treatment of migrant workers. After a career in the corporate sector — mostly marketing and regional business development — Alex joined TWC2 in 2011, and for many years served as Treasurer. His first involvement in civil society began some twenty years prior, when he was prominent in Singapore’s LGBT movement. He is also known in Singapore as a socio- political commentator and human rights activist and has contributed chapters to various books on politics and society. At TWC2, Alex has special responsibility for a number of portfolios: communications, internal data and case management systems, and international relations. Other portfolios that Alex is responsible for include overseeing the social work team, which handles casework and outreach to worker communities, various computerisation projects within the organisation, and the development of policy ideas as part of TWC2’s advocacy mission.