Greg Scarlatoiu is the Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) in Washington, D.C. He has coordinated 28 HRNK publications addressing North Korea’s human rights situation and the operation of its regime. He is a visiting professor at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul as well as instructor and coordinator of the Korean Peninsula and Japan class at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI).  Scarlatoiu is vice president of the executive board of the International Council on Korean Studies (ICKS). He is also a member of the advisory board for The Korea and World Politics Institute. Prior to HRNK, Scarlatoiu was with the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) in Washington, D.C. He has over six years of experience in international development, on projects funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. For fifteen years, Scarlatoiu has authored and broadcast the weekly Korean language ‘Scarlatoiu Column’ to North Korea for Radio Free Asia. A seasoned lecturer on Korean issues, Scarlatoiu is a frequent commentator for CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and other media organizations. He has published op-eds and letters to the editor in newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He has published academic papers in volumes produced by organizations including The Hanns Seidel Foundation, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and the International Journal of Korean Studies. He has appeared as an expert witness at several Congressional hearings on North Korean human rights. Scarlatoiu holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts from Seoul National University’s Department of International Relations. He graduated from the MIT XXI Seminar for U.S. national security leaders in 2016-2017. Scarlatoiu was awarded the title ‘Citizen of Honor, City of Seoul,’ in January 1999. He is fluent in Korean, French, and Romanian. A native of Romania born and raised under that country’s communist regime, Scarlatoiu is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Sabina E. Silkworth is the Accounting Consultant at HRNK. Mrs. Silkworth has been with the Committee since its inception in October 2001. She has over 25 years of experience in the accounting and non-profit field.  A Washington, D.C. native, Mrs. Silkworth graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Catholic University of America with a B.A. in Financial Management and Summa Cum Laude from George Washington University with a Master of Accountancy. She is married, has four kids, and resides in Maryland.

Raymond Ha is the Director of Operations and Research at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). He was previously the Office Manager & Outreach Coordinator (2014–16) and served as an Editorial Consultant (2016–21).

He has participated in editorial work on HRNK publications, including Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: The Role of the United Nations, Lost Generation: The Health and Human Rights of North Korean Children, 1990–2018, and North Korea’s Organization and Guidance Department: The Control Tower of Human Rights Denial. He has provided interpretation for North Korean escapees, including political prison camp survivors, and was a member of the team that participated in an outreach campaign focused on the UN General Assembly in New York in October 2014.

He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Politics and received an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.

As the Social Media Associate, Doohyun Kim manages HRNK’s social media platforms and creates new content to engage HRNK’s supporters and raise awareness of the North Korean human rights situation to new audiences. His work includes increasing HRNK's brand awareness, such as analyzing engagement data, identifying trends in customer interactions, and planning digital campaigns to build the HRNK community online. He leverages his skills, bilingual talents, and experience and knowledge as a North Korean to interview North Korean escapees, create new videos for HRNK’s YouTube channel, assist with research and satellite imagery analysis, and conduct interviews with members of the press.

As a defector who miraculously escaped North Korea, Doohyun Kim seeks to fight for freedom and human rights alongside HRNK. He knows firsthand the operations of the North Korean government and its systematic, ruthless human rights abuses. His father died in a North Korean prison camp. He was sentenced to eight years, but died after two, and Doohyun could not claim his father's body until the full eight-year sentence was complete. Doohyun understands North Koreans’ needs. He understands the pain and struggles that they suffer when they defect. Fighting for human rights for North Koreans is his mission in life.

Doohyun Kim studied at Utah Valley University and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a Global Politics Emphasis. He also studied at Seoul Cyber University in South Korea, majoring in Business Administration. He maintains his own YouTube channel called “Escaping Paradise.”

As Operations Associate, Lauren Chung assists the Executive Director with the daily operations of HRNK's headquarters. She helps manage donor relations, public relations, and communications while also maintaining the Executive Director's schedule. She also contributes to other tasks, including background research for HRNK publications as well as U.S. and international media monitoring.

Chung graduated from American University with a B.A. in International Studies, specializing in U.S. Relations & Foreign Policy in East Asia and the Pacific.

As International Outreach Associate, Rick Herssevoort communicates to the United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, and other international entities, governments, and interested persons about HRNK’s objectives, published works, research findings, upcoming events, and policy recommendations for improving the human rights situation of North Koreans on behalf of HRNK and the Executive Director. He also engages in grant development for HRNK. Mr. Herssevoort works under the supervision of HRNK Director of International Advocacy and Development Amanda Mortwedt Oh and Executive Director Greg Scarlatoiu.

Mr. Herssevoort recently graduated from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, pursuing a B.A. in European Studies with a specialization in politics. He is a recipient of the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Diletta De Luca is an Editor and Researcher at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). She developed her research skills throughout her university experience, where she explored authoritarian governments, international relations, and East Asian affairs. She holds a BSc in Social Sciences and a MSc in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a researcher, Diletta continues to explore the authoritarian practices of the North Korean regime and the role of the international community in the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Moreover, she advocates for human rights in North Korea by expanding HRNK's outreach in Europe and beyond.

Damian Reddy serves as Legal Counsel and Project Development Associate at the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). He is a Law graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and he is also an admitted attorney in South Africa. He is currently completing his Master of Laws degree in Human Rights and intends to focus his final thesis on the human rights violations being perpetrated in North Korea and the duty of the international community in uncovering and prosecuting such violations as crimes against humanity.

Albert Buixadé Farré is the Wikipedian in Residence & Scholarly Communications Specialist at HRNK. Since 2015, he has edited Wikipedia articles and advised HRNK on Wikipedia coverage to more effectively disseminate reports and insights into North Korea’s human rights, prison camps, media, as well as the regime’s structure, history, and recent developments. He also conducts research on the history of the regime and its human rights practices, and explores new avenues for continuing to broaden HRNK's reach.

His drive is to democratize knowledge towards a more learned and virtuous polity for today and tomorrow. He seeks to distill copious and daunting amounts of published information into approachable and useful knowledge; and to more effectively preserve and disseminate it to make for better educated citizens, better equipped researchers, and better informed policymakers. He has pursued these aims through conference organizing, podcast production, academic publishing, Wikipedia editing, and scholarly outreach.

He holds a B.A. in Business Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.