China Personified

on July 25, 2016

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Founded in the Spring of 2012 in New York, China Personified LLC (華人格化) has grown from a media start-up to a social enterprise with personal storytelling at its heart. Through a digital media platform with personal blogs and video profiles such as “Dreams & Dreamers” and “Headliners & Heroes”, China Personified has established a global reputation for attracting and interacting with the next generation of leaders and consumers who travel between China and America. We have created brand identities and video stories that resonate with an expanding network of bilingual (Chinese & English) millennials from China and America. 

Manuel Lafont Rapnouil

on July 22, 2016

Manuel Lafont Rapnouil is the head of the Paris office and a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. From 2011 to 2015, he headed the Political Affairs Division of the Department for U.N. Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. In this capacity, he was responsible for French foreign policy at the United Nations Security Council, including peacekeeping and sanctions. Prior to that, he held various postings within the French diplomatic service, including in Washington, D.C. and at the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie).

He was also a rapporteur for French white papers on defense and national security and on foreign and European policy. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Europe Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Mathieu Duchâtel

on July 22, 2016

Mathieu Duchâtel is a Senior Policy Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia and China Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Based in the Paris office of the ECFR, he works on Asian security, with a focus on maritime affairs, the Korean peninsula, China’s foreign policy, and E.U.-China relations.

Before joining ECFR in 2015, he was a Senior Researcher and the Representative in Beijing of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 2011 to 2015, a Research Fellow with Asia Centre in Paris from 2007 to 2011, and an Associate Researcher based in Taipei with Asia Centre from 2004 to 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po, Paris). Duchâtel has spent a total of nine years in Shanghai at Fudan University, Taipei at National Chengchi University, and Beijing, and he has been a visiting scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University in 2011-2012 and at the Japan Institute of International Affairs in 2015. His latest co-authored book, China’s Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad was published in the Adelphi collection by IISS and Routledge in 2015.