Sophie Richardson is a longtime activist and scholar of Chinese politics, human rights, and foreign policy. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. From 2006 to 2023, Dr Richardson served as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. Dr Richardson has published extensively on human rights, and testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Her current research focuses on the global implications of democracies’ weak responses to increasingly repressive Chinese governments.