Philippe Le Corre

Philippe Le Corre is Professor of Geopolitics affiliated at ESSEC Business School and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis focusing on China-Europe relations, Chinese overseas investments and China’s global rise. Le Corre’s career spans government, academia, media and business. He was a special assistant for international affairs to the French defence minister, and has also served as a senior policy adviser on Asia within the defence ministry’s directorate for international relations and strategy.In the private sector, Mr. Le Corre worked as a partner with Publicis Consultants in Paris and Shanghai. For nine years, he also worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent. His recent publications include China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for Europe in China-US-Europe Relations in a New Era (2020) and Covid-19 and the End of European Illusions about China (2020).