sean davison
Sean is the co-founder of DignitySA as well as the Innocence Project, an organisation that sought to exonerate wrongfully imprisoned people on the basis of DNA testing that was not done at the time of their trial. As a result of his arrest and High Court trial in South Africa, he became an international campaigner for changes to the law regarding assisted dying under legally defined criteria and served for five years as president of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies. Formerly a Professor of Biotechnology at the University of the Western Cape, Sean currently resides in the UK with his family. He is the author of three books - ‘Before We Say Goodbye’, ‘The Last Waltz: Love, Death & Betrayal’ and “The Price of Mercy: A Fight for the Right To Die With Dignity”.