Indo-Pacific Program

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), attached to the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE) of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. Prior to September 2021, he was Chair Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he also headed the department from 2007 to 2018. In addition, he was an Associate Research Fellow at the Asia Centre, Paris and at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong. From 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (Centre d'études français sur la Chine contemporaine, CEFC) in Hong Kong and chief editor of Perspectives chinoises and China Perspectives. From 1994 to 1998, he was director of the Taipei Office of the CEFC. From 1990 to 1991, he was a lecturer at the Politics Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Julia Pallanch is program coordinator for GMF’s Indo-Pacific Program. Based in Berlin, her portfolio concerns the management of operations including the Stockholm China Forum, and Young Strategists Forum.

Prior to joining GMF, Pallanch received training as externalist (foreign policy expert) at the EU delegation in Beijing and supported the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia program in Berlin. She holds a bachelor’s degree in sinology from Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and is finalizing a master’s degree in modern East Asian studies at the University Duisburg-Essen, where she specializes in Chinese foreign policy and EU-China relations.

Pallanch speaks fluent Italian, English, and Slovak, and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and German.

Franziska Luettge is the senior program officer for the Indo-Pacific Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Based in Brussels, she represents the Indo-Pacific team in the EU capital and is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operations of the transatlantic team, including its project and grant management, research, and internal and external communications. Franziska’s policy portfolio centers on the Indo-Pacific and the program’s India work, including the India Trilateral Forum. In her previous role within GMF Indo-Pacific, she focused on EU-China relations and managed operations for the biannual Stockholm China Forum.