New Dividing Lines in Asia in the Light of War and Pandemics
VIEW EVENT DETAILSwith Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, moderated by Philippe Le Corre
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We will have the privilege to be in conversation with Maurice-Gourdault Montagne, about the new dividing lines in Asia in the light of war and pandemics, moderated by Philippe Le Corre, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Visiting Professor, ESSEC Business School. Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, born in 1953 in Paris, has been the Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign affairs between 2017 and 2019. He joined the diplomatic service in 1978. After being the French Ambassador to Tokyo (1990-2002), he was from 2002 to 2007, senior diplomatic councellor to the French President Jacques Chirac and Sherpa for the G7/G8 as well in charge of the strategic dialogues with India and China. Then he went on to be the French Ambassador in London (2007-11), Berlin (2011-14) and Beijing (2014-17). He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris and Institute of Oriental languages and civilizations (INALCO) as well as Paris-Assas where he completed his MA in Law.
Our Speaker
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Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, born in 1953 in Paris, has been the Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign affairs between 2017 and 2019. He joined the diplomatic service in 1978. After being the French Ambassador to Tokyo (1990-2002), he was from 2002 to 2007, senior diplomatic councellor to the French President Jacques Chirac and Sherpa for the G7/G8 as well in charge of the strategic dialogues with India and China. Then he went on to be the French Ambassador in London (2007-11), Berlin (2011-14) and Beijing (2014-17).
He is a graduate of Institut d’Etudes politiques de Paris and Institute of Oriental languages and civilizations (INALCO) as well as Paris-Assas where he completed his MA in Law.
Our Moderator
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Philippe Le Corre is a Research Fellow with the at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, focusing on China-Europe relations, Chinese overseas investments and great powers competition. He is also a Visiting Professor at ESSEC Business School, an Affiliate with the French Institute for East Asia (IFRAE-CNRS) and an associate Fellow with Fondation pour la Recherche stratégique in Paris. In addition, he is an Associate in Research with the John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard and a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC, from 2014-2017. Philippe’s career spans government, academia, media and business. He was Special Adviser for international affairs to the French defense minister, and also served as a Senior Policy Adviser on Asia within the Ministry of defense’s directorate for international relations and strategy. In the private sector, Mr. Le Corre worked as a senior director with Publicis in Paris and Shanghai, where he ran a team of advisers to the Shanghai World Expo 2010 Organizing Committee. He previously worked in Asia as a foreign correspondent for 10 years, and has published extensively on the region in Asia-Europe Journal, Echo Wall, Perspectives Chinoises, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Politico, Le Monde and Foreign Affairs, among others. He is the author or co-author of several books on China including China’s Offensive in Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 2016), Quand la Chine va au marché (Maxima, 1999) and Après Hong Kong (Autrement, 1997).
His recent publications include China’s Influence in Southeastern, Central and Eastern Europe. Vulnerabilities and Resilience (Carnegie, 2021); China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for Europe in China-US-Europe Relations in a New Era, (Routledge, 2020); Covid-19 and the end of European illusions about China (Carnegie, July 2020); The Case for Transatlantic Cooperation in Indo-Pacific (Carnegie Working paper, December 2019 – with Erik Brattberg); China as a geoeconomic influencer: Four European Case Studies (Carnegie Working paper, October 2018); China’s rise: What about a transatlantic dialog? (Asia-Europe Journal, April 2017, co-authored with Jonathan Pollack).