Jonas Parello-Plesner

Jonas Parello-Plesner was a nonresident senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is also executive director at the Alliance of Democracies in Copenhagen with former NATO Secretary General and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Jonas has significant experience in the Danish Foreign Service including on US, European and Chinese strategic thinking and served in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs while studying at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris.

Mr. Parello-Plesner has also worked at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) as a senior policy fellow with a focus on European-Chinese relations. He served as the Danish Foreign Ministry’s senior advisor on china and northeast Asia from 2005-2009. His co-authored book, China’s Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad, was published in 2015 by IISS/Routledge and launched at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. At Hudson, he published a comprehensive report which conducted broad-based tracking of Chinese Communist Party interference and influence in the US. Mr. Parello-Plesner has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Newsweek, the American Interest and writes an international column for Danish daily Berlingske.