PHILIPPE LE CORRE

Leading Expert on Sino-European Relations

Philippe Le Corre is a scholar, writer and lecturer specializing in China’s interactions with the world (especially Europe, Eurasia and the US), competition in the Asia-Pacific region, and Chinese overseas investments. Le Corre is a senior research fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; an associate in research with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; and a senior research fellow / visiting professor with ESSEC Business School’s Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (Irene) where he runs the Asia Program. Le Corre is a Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. He is also a senior advisor on geopolitics to Asia Society France and also advises private companies and governments in their interactions with the Indo-Pacific region. For nearly a decade, Le Corre worked at two of Washington D.C.’s most prestigious think-tanks, first as a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program, then as a nonresident senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International peace’s Asia and Europe programs.

He has served as a special assistant for international affairs and counsellor to the French defense minister, and as a senior policy adviser on Asia within the French Ministry of Defense’s directorate for international relations and strategy. In the private sector, Le Corre worked as a senior director with Publicis Groupe in Paris and Shanghai, where he ran a large team of advisers to China’s Shanghai World Expo 2010 Organizing Committee and was part of Publicis’ China Management Board. He is a French Foreign Trade Adviser and once served as the president of the Harvard Club of France. Le Corre previously worked in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent for nearly ten years, and has published extensively on the region in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Politico, National Interest, Le Monde, Les Echos, Nikkei Asia, China Perspectives, Etudes, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs, among others. Between 2018 and 2023, he has testified six times before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, the French Senate and the French National Assembly on the topic of Chinese investment and influence in Europe. He is the author or co-author of seven books on Chinese affairs and many other publications including Does the rise of China threaten the transatlantic relationship? In China Questions 2 (Harvard University Press, 2022); China’s influence in Southeastern, Eastern and Central European countries: Vulnerabilities and Resilience, (Carnegie, 2021); European and American approaches towards Chinese Foreign Direct Investment. Opportunities, challenges, and policy responses in Europe in an era of Growing Sino-American Competition (Routledge, 2021)