Angela Gui, Board Member

Angela Gui is a human rights activist and historian. She is the daughter of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, one of the five Hong Kong booksellers who were abducted and detained by mainland Chinese authorities in 2015. Gui Minhai is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for “illegally providing intelligence overseas”, and since his abduction, Angela has worked to win his freedom and raise awareness of Chinese human rights violations.

Angela has testified before US Congress, Canadian and UK parliaments, and the United Nations Human Rights Council. She has written for a wide range of publications, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Hong Kong Free Press. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, researching visual public health communication and lung disease epidemics in twentieth-century China. Angela holds an MA in the History of Medicine and a BA in Sociology from the University of Warwick.