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Staff Profile: Jonas Parello-Plesner

Recent Commentary

• Grading the voice of Europe - Merkel in China
  10 Feb 12
• Burma is changing, so where is Ashton?
  19 Jan 12
• Stop fretting about Beijing as a global policeman
  05 Jan 12
• China's desert-dance in Libya
  31 Oct 11
• Where is Europe in the Danish election campaign?
  09 Sep 11

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Recent Blogs

• Where next? China’s internal internet debate
  12 Jan 12
• North Korea: still a family business
  20 Dec 11
• Europe: an Asian agenda item
  16 Nov 11
• Smiley China
  28 Sep 11
• “Bo-trees” and the greening of China
  20 Sep 11

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recent press

• Tygodnik Powszechny
  14 Feb 12
• Focus Taiwan
  08 Feb 12
• Il Foglio
  05 Feb 12
• AFP
  03 Feb 12

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Jonas joined ECFR as Senior Policy Fellow in 2010 directly from a position as Executive Director of a Danish development NGO. Prior to that he pursued a diplomatic career. 

He served as Denmark’s Senior Advisor on China and North East Asia from 2005-2009 and has engaged in numerous diplomatic exchanges with China including the negotiations for a Strategic Partnership between Denmark and China in 2008. He was also one of the chief architects in elaborating a Danish Strategy on China as a whole-of-government exercise.

Jonas also knows the EU-machinery from the inside with four years’ experience as Denmark’s Capital representative on Asia affairs (COASI) in the EU’s Council of Ministers.

He has been posted to Paris as a Danish diplomat in 2003-2005 but was also working in the French diplomatic service, in the MFA’s think tank. Here he was engaged in the early thinking about blueprints for what much, much later became the European diplomatic service (EEAS).   

In 2002, he was working on the Danish EU Presidency working on economic and budgetary issues.  

He has been selected for young leaders programs both Nordic-American and in Korea.  

On new brand names for emerging powers, Jonas coined KIA (Korea, Australia and Indonesia), Asia’s Middle powers with a seat at the G-20. He is a regular commentator on developments in Asia and China and appears frequently on European radios and broadcast. He is on the editorial board of RÆSON, a Danish magazine on international affairs.

Jonas Parello-Plesner holds a Msc from London School of Economics as well as Copenhagen University and graduated from the Ecole nationale d’administration (ENA) in Paris. He speaks fluent Danish, English and French, and proficient German, Spanish, and basic Mandarin.

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