Sophie Richardson
China Director
Sophie Richardson |
Sophie Richardson is the China director at
Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the
Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the
author of numerous articles on domestic Chinese political reform,
democratization, and human rights in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Hong
Kong, the Philippines, and Vietnam. She has testified before the
European Parliament and the US Senate and House of Representatives. She
has provided commentary to the BBC, CNN, the Far Eastern Economic
Review, Foreign Policy, National Public Radio, the New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Dr. Richardson is the
author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
(Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of
China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare
interviews with policy makers.