Philippe Le Corre Keynote Speaker

Philippe Le Corre is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In addition, he is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace one of the top think-tanks in Washington, DC.

From 2014 to 2017, Philippe was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at The Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He was previously Special Assistant and Counsellor for international affairs to the French defence minister, and also served as a Senior Policy Adviser within the Ministry of defence’s directorate for international relations and strategy. In the private sector, Mr. Le Corre worked as a partner with Publicis Consultants in Paris, Brussels and Shanghai, where he ran a team of advisers to the Shanghai World Expo 2010 Organising Committee. He previously worked as a foreign correspondent in London (where he served as president of the Foreign Press Association and BBC commentator), and in Asia. As a journalist, he has interviewed Financier Warren Buffet, Virgin’s Richard Branson, President Jiang Zemin of China and ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair. He has published extensively in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, Politico, National Interest, Le Monde, Les Echos, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs among others. His latest book, China’s Offensive in Europe was published by Brookings Institution Press in 2016. His next, co-authored book, is called Reinventing the Silk Road (Palgrave, 2018).

Philippe Le Corre has spoken at a large number of venues including: Enterprise:50 in Washington (October 2017), Sibos in Toronto (October 2017); Harvard Club of Washington (June 2017); EU Chamber of Commerce in China (March 2017); The Brookings Institution (May 2017); Asia Society of Scotland in Edinburgh (April 2017); National Committee on US-China relations in New York (October 2016); Institute of International Affairs in Brussels (October 2016); Fairbank Center at Harvard University (November 2016); World Affairs Council of Dallas (October 2016); King’s College London (May 2016); Johns Hopkins University (February 2016); Ditchley Foundation, UK (October 2015); Institut Montaigne in Paris (February 2015).

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