Ambassador David Slinn and Professor Sandra Fahy join HanVoice Board
September 1, 2022
HanVoice announced today the appointment of Ambassador David Slinn and Professor Sandra Fahy to its board.
“Sandra and David will help change the conversation in Ottawa around North Korea.”
The addition of Ambassador Slinn and Dr. Fahy will allow HanVoice to build up its policy development efforts. “Sandra and David will help us change the conversation in Ottawa around North Korea,” said Sean Chung, Executive Director of HanVoice. “As the only Canadian organization working on the human rights and refugee dimensions of this issue, we are excited to have two new credible voices helping advance that cause on the Hill.”
Ambassador David Slinn is a retired British diplomat. Ambassador Slinn, assigned to Pyongyang in 2002 as the first British Ambassador to North Korea, established the embassy in acutely sensitive security conditions. Since then, Ambassador Slinn has retired and focused much of his time on researching and developing approaches to free expression and information related to North Korea. He is a thought leader and regularly consulted on the security and information dimensions of the West’s engagement with North Korea and comes with an extensive network of experts similarly focused on these issues. He serves as Senior Advisor at Digital Public Square.
Dr. Sandra Fahy is an Associate Professor at Carleton University. Dr. Fahy is a leading expert on the human rights and humanitarian situation in North Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London in 2009. She held post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS in Paris and USC in Los Angeles, before taking up a position in Anthropology at Sophia University in 2013 and Carleton University in 2021. Her first book, Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea published by Columbia University Press in 2015) examines how North Korean famine survivors understood the food crisis and concomitant political violence. Her second book, Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Rights Abuses on the Record published by Columbia University Press in 2019 accounts for abuses committed by the North Korean state, domestically and internationally.
HanVoice is a national charity in Canada focused on improved human rights in North Korea and Canada's engagement in the Korean Peninsula, through refugee resettlement, human rights education, and policy development.
