Philippe Le Corre
on June 1, 2017
Philippe Le Corre is a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and a Senior Adviser in Geopolitics to Asia Society France, specializing in China’s geoeconomic and geopolitical rise, China-EU relations, and Chinese foreign direct investments. He is also a Professor of Geopolitics and Asian Studies at ESSEC Business School in Paris, an Associate in Research with the John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and an Associate Fellow with the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique. He was previously a research fellow with the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. He has testified several times before the U.S. Congress, the French Parliament, and the European Parliament. 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, new paperback edition, 2025), “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” and numerous papers with the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis including “A New Triangle: The Interplay Between China and EU-India Relations” (2025).
