Join a discussion with French Ambassador HE Mr. Chapuis on the COP21 Paris agreement, with a focus on the France-China relationship.
Students, faculty, staff, and community members are warmly invited to attend.
Bio:
Mr. Nicolas Chapuis is the Ambassador of France to Canada. He has held successive posts in Peking, Boston, Singapore, Shanghai (as Consul General), London (as Cultural Counsellor and director of the United Kingdom Alliance française), and Ulan Bator (as Ambassador). He has translated a number of Chinese texts and he wrote an essay, entitled Tristes automnes [Sad autumns], in 2001. Nicolas Chapuis studied at Lycée Condorcet and St Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. He earned a bachelor’s degree and he pursued further study of the Chinese and Mongolian languages at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. He also studied history at Université Paris VII. He began working for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 1980, when he was sent to Peking to work as the press attaché. He is married with two children.
This event is sponsored by the Institute for European Studies, Institute of Asian Research, Liu Institute for Global Issues, the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Policy@UBC series.
