Philippe Le Corre has been a Research Fellow with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School since 2017, focusing on China-Europe relations, Chinese overseas investments and China’s global rise. He is also a Senior Research Fellow with ESSEC Business School (IRENE), an Associate in Research with the John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard and a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Asia and Europe Programs of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC, from 2014-2017. Mr. Le Corre’s career spans government, academia, media and business. He was Special Assistant 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. He is the author or co-author of several books including China’s Offensive in Europe (Brookings Institution Press, 2016), and has participated in the upcoming China Questions 2 (Harvard University Press, 2022). He is also a co-author of China’s influence in Southeastern, Central and Eastern Europe. Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Four Countries (Carnegie, 2021)