Miguel serves as Senior Officer, Church Partnerships for International Justice Mission. In this role, Miguel leads IJM’s engagement with the Church globally, and guides IJM’s offices around the world as they seek to develop creative partnerships with churches and Christian organizations. Prior to beginning this role in 2019, Miguel has served in various roles with IJM, including supporting IJM’s counter-labor trafficking initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as previously serving for two years as the Program Design and Community Relations Fellow in IJM’s Bangalore, India office.

Before IJM, Miguel worked as a staff pastor at Cornerstone Christian Church in Wyckoff, NJ, after a career in the tech industry as a project manager and integration consultant. Miguel holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Film from Cornell University, and a Master of Divinity from Biblical Theological Seminary. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Janelle and their two sons, Isaiah and Josiah.

Peter Williams serves as IJM’s Global Vice President of Program Excellence, leading IJM’s Program Center for Excellence. The Center for Excellence consolidates IJM’s case-type expertise, program development and program analysis capacities in a single team that Peter will lead to accelerate the growth and impact of IJM’s programs and thought-leadership on our theory of change in public engagement. Peter comes to this role from more than 12 years’ senior leadership with IJM. Most recently Peter served as IJM’s Principal Advisor on Modern Slavery, IJM’s leading expert on modern slavery programming and interventions. Prior to this, Peter was Country Director in Cambodia where he led the development of IJM’s new program to address cross-border labor trafficking within recruiting corridors in the Greater Mekong Subregion, leading to the conviction of more than 30 traffickers in three years.

Under his leadership the Bangalore team rescued more than 1200 people from bonded slavery, trained thousands of justice officials, and implemented a ground-breaking bonded labor prevalence study. Peter joined IJM in 2010 as a Legal Fellow in Chennai, India. Before IJM, Peter was a Crown Prosecutor in Auckland New Zealand, where he prosecuted criminal jury trials and was published in the New Zealand Law Journal. Peter holds a BA and an LLB(hons) from the University of Auckland. While at law school Peter co-founded the Equal Justice Project, a pro-bono legal organization for law students (www.equaljusticeproject.co.nz). He currently lives in Auckland with his wife, Tammy and their daughter Brooke.

Michele Lee, Global Vice President of Justice Solutions, focuses on the program approach and accompaniment strategy of IJM’s programs. Previously, Michele served as the Global Director of Aftercare, leading IJM’s Global Aftercare program and guiding our global aftercare strategy as IJM seeks to bring restoration to millions of survivors.

Michele collaborates with global teams on internal knowledge-sharing initiatives, thought leadership, global partnership development, and decontextualized resource development in IJM’s program outcomes, standards, and competencies. After receiving her PhD, Michele worked as a psychologist for 10+ years at the University of Pennsylvania and for the Arlington County Government.

She joined IJM as an Aftercare Associate in 2012, providing casework consultation to aftercare teams in multiple IJM field offices. In 2013, Michele transitioned to her role as an aftercare specialist supporting field offices combatting child sexual assault and then shifted to support IJM India’s work to combat sex trafficking. Over her six-year tenure at IJM, she has obtained a truly global perspective of IJM’s innovations, strengths, and needs through her support of our field offices in Kenya, Rwanda, Bolivia, Chiang Mai, Kolkata, and Mumbai.

Elin Jagerskog serves as IJM’s Chief People Officer. Elin and her team support IJM’s global People, Culture and Security efforts.

Elin joined IJM in 2018 as the Global HR Director and stepped into the role as Chief People Officer in 2019. Elin brought 20 years of HR experience and has, amongst other, served as Nordic HR Director for LG Electronics and Regional HR Advisor, Middle East at Norwegian Refugee Council. Her private sector work also includes working as a senior HR associate for St. Jude Medical and Atlas Copco.

Elin received her master’s in human Recourses at the University of Linkoping, Sweden and is an IAC certified coach. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband Anders and their four children.