Lauri Heikkinen

Lauri Heikkinen is a freelance disability policy and accessibility consultant. He has been involved in furthering the cause of international disability rights for the past 15 years, having worked on and around issues such as deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities, inclusive international mobility opportunities, disabled EU citizens' exercise of their right to freedom of movement and supporting grassroots disabled people's organizations in the Global South through grants for small-scale projects. His interests include fostering active citizenship through inclusive decision-making, decent work, design thinking in the context of public policy, as well as transnational disability policy frameworks and instruments, particularly with regard to questions surrounding legal capacity and social autonomy in line with the UNCRPD. He has an academic background in languages and literature.