Philippe Le Corre

Philippe Le Corre is a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, specializing in China’s geoeconomic and geopolitical rise, China-EU relations, and Chinese foreign direct investment. He is also a Visiting Professor at ESSEC Business School in Paris, a Senior Research Fellow with the ESSEC Institute for Research and Education in Negotiation, and an Affiliate with the French Institute for East Asia (IFRAE-CNRS). He was previously a fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington and has testified several times before the U.S. Congress. He has worked on China since the late 1980s first as a foreign correspondent for Radio France International, then as a senior adviser to the French Minister of Defense, a consultant, and a think-tanker. He is the author or co-author of several books on China, including China’s Offensive in Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 2016), and has contributed chapters to edited volumes such as “Does the Rise of China Threaten the Transatlantic Partnership?” in The China Questions 2 (Harvard University Press, 2022), “European and American Approaches Towards Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Post-COVID Times: Opportunities, challenges and policy responses” in Europe in an era of Growing Sino-American Competition (Routledge, 2021), and China-US-Europe Relations in a New Era (Routledge, 2020). He has also contributed to publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, National Interest, Le Monde, Les Echos, Nikkei Asia, China Perspectives, and Asia-Europe Journal. He is the co-author of the 2021 Carnegie report “China’s Influence in Southeastern, Central, and Eastern Europe: Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Four Countries.”