{"id":5061,"date":"2026-02-12T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:57:41","slug":"ms-kate-saunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/ms-kate-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Kate Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5003 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Saunders-e1770833708646-279x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Saunders-e1770833708646-279x300.jpeg 279w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Saunders-e1770833708646-670x720.jpeg 670w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Saunders-e1770833708646-838x900.jpeg 838w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kate-Saunders-e1770833708646.jpeg 905w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>Ms. Kate Saunders<\/strong><\/em> is a Tibet specialist and co-founder of Turquoise Roof, a project that combines Tibetan research expertise with open-source intelligence methods to deepen understanding of the situation in Tibet, currently working with Tibet Watch in the UK. With over 20 years of senior-level experience as a Tibet\/China specialist, Kate formerly served as Research Director of the International Campaign for Tibet. Kate is the author of \u2018Eighteen Layers of Hell: Stories from the Chinese Gulag\u2019, one of the few English-language works examining the Chinese laogai system, co-author of \u2018The Dalai Lama and Havel: Warriors for Truth and Love\u2019, and the report \u2018Sacred Authority and State Power: The Dalai Lama Institution in a global context\u2019, published in June 2025 by the Czech thinktank Sinopsis. Her articles and op-eds have appeared internationally in publications including The Guardian, The Times, the New York Times, The Independent and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Kate Saunders is a Tibet specialist and co-founder of Turquoise Roof, a project that combines Tibetan research expertise with open-source intelligence methods to deepen understanding of the situation in Tibet, currently working with Tibet Watch in the UK. With over 20 years of senior-level experience as a Tibet\/China specialist, Kate formerly served as Research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker_2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}