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Michael Kovrig
BIO
Michael Kovrig is a Senior Adviser to the International Crisis group, having previously served for more than a decade as a diplomat in China and at the United Nations for the Canadian foreign service. He has worked in 20 countries, including as a strategic communications specialist for the UN Development Group and a journalist and foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe.
In December 2018, he was arrested in China alongside Michael Spavor. They were charged with espionage and held for 1019 days in apparent retaliation for the arrest, on a US warrant, of the senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. He was released in September 2021.
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