François Godement
Director of the Asia and China Programme, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR)
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François Godement is the director of ECFR’s Asia & China programme and a senior policy fellow at ECFR. He is a non-resident senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and an outside consultant for the Policy Planning Staff of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A long-time professor at France’s National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations and Sciences Po Paris, he created Asia Centre IFRI at the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (1985-2005). In 2005 he founded Asia Centre as an independent centre for research on Asian issues as they intersect global debates. In 1995 he co-founded the European committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), which he co-chaired until 2008. He has also been a member of the advisory board for the Europe China Academic Network (ECAN).
He is the editor of China Analysis, a quarterly analytical survey of Chinese news and debate published by ECFR. His recent publications include China at the gates: A new power audit of EU-China relations (2017), Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order (2017), Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order (2017), China’s market economy status and the European interest (2016), Contemporary China: between Mao and Market (2015).
He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and was a postgraduate student at Harvard University.
A long-time professor at France’s National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations and Sciences Po Paris, he created Asia Centre IFRI at the Paris-based Institut Français des Relations Internationales (1985-2005). In 2005 he founded Asia Centre as an independent centre for research on Asian issues as they intersect global debates. In 1995 he co-founded the European committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), which he co-chaired until 2008. He has also been a member of the advisory board for the Europe China Academic Network (ECAN).
He is the editor of China Analysis, a quarterly analytical survey of Chinese news and debate published by ECFR. His recent publications include China at the gates: A new power audit of EU-China relations (2017), Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order (2017), Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global order (2017), China’s market economy status and the European interest (2016), Contemporary China: between Mao and Market (2015).
He is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) and was a postgraduate student at Harvard University.