Sean Turnell

Sean Turnell is an Australian economist with longstanding connections to Myanmar, the nation formerly known as Burma. In 2016, Sean was appointed as senior economic advisor to the dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who had become the country's prime minister after decades of military rule. The country had another election, and democracy was cemented. But the military staged a coup in 2021, and Sean was arrested and charged with being a spy, and