Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado

Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado is Founder and Executive Director of the Andrés Bello Foundation – China Latin America Research Center. He is a foreign policy analyst specializing in Sino-Latin American relations with a focus on Venezuela. D’Sola is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. In 2019, he served as a foreign policy advisor on China for the interim government of Venezuela’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. D’Sola lived in Beijing from 2008 to 2016, where he worked as a communications manager and researcher for the news agency China Files. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Andrés Bello Catholic University (Venezuela); a Master’s in East Asian Studies from Columbia University (USA); a Master’s in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (UK); and a diploma in advanced language studies from the Beijing Language and Culture University (China).