The Bridge Tank gathered Irina Bokova, former Director General of UNESCO, Brune Poirson, Vice-President of the United Nations Environment Assembly and former Secretary of State to the French Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, Edmond Alphandery former Minister for the Economy, François Loos, former French Minister for Industry and former Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Brice Lalonde, former Minister for the Environment, Jean-Claude Beaujour, lawyer and Vice-President of the France-Americas Foundation, Joël Ruet, Sylvie Bermann, former French Ambassador to China, the United Kingdom and Russia, Stéphane Gompertz, former French Ambassador to Austria and Ethiopia and Africa Director at the Quai d’Orsay, Geneviève des Rivières, former Canadian Ambassador and President of the Latin America and Caribbean Institute, Raphaël Schoentgen, former CTO and Executive Committee Member of ENGIE and former President of Hydrogen Europe, Thomas Melonio, Innovation, Research and Knowledge Executive Director of the French Development Agency, Deborah Furet, Research Director of the EHESS, and Emmanuel Dupuy, President of the Prospective and Security in Europe Institute, among the keynote speakers of The Bridge Tank’s forum.
On this occasion, the experts and political figures exchanged about the changing globalisation, green investment and finance, evolving human exchanges and green transitions in France, China and the European Union.
This event, co-organises with the Chinese Embassy in Paris, focused on the Sino-European relations and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on them, and took place on the 15th of October 2020.