Sophie Richardson is the advocacy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division and oversees the organization’s work on China. Her book on Chinese foreign policy is forthcoming from Columbia University Press, and she has also published on domestic Chinese political reform, democratization, and human rights in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. Her publications have appeared in the Far Eastern Economic Review, La Libre Belgique, the Japan Times, JoongAng Daily, the Journal of Asian Studies, The Nation (Bangkok), The Phnom Penh Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has provided commentary to Al Jazeera, the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, National Public Radio, and The New York Times. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson speaks Mandarin Chinese.