Join a discussion with French Ambassador H E Mr. Chapuis on the COP21 Paris agreement\, with a focus on the France-Chi na relationship.
Students\, faculty\, staff\, and community members a re 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 Gene ral)\, London (as Cultural Counsellor and director of the United Kingdom Al liance française)\, and Ulan Bator (as Ambassador). He has translated a num ber 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 Institu t national des langues et civilisations orientales. He also studied history at Université Paris VII. He began working for the French Ministry of Forei gn Affairs in September 1980\, when he was sent to Peking to work as the pr ess 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 Affair s\, and the Policy@UBC series.
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