Olivier VayssetKeio International Center

Olivier Vaysset is a part-time instructor at Keio International Center giving a course about “France & Europe Asian Policy since WWII”. Vaysset has got MA in History and in Chinese language and Civilization, Jussieu, University of Paris 7. Certificate of History of Modern China, Nanjing and Beijing Universities during his 2 years as a foreign student with a Chinese government scholarship (1979-1981), and enjoyed a private summer program at Tung-wu Ta-hsüeh University, Taipei (1976). He is a former French diplomat (1984-2017), stationed mainly in Asia: Laos: 1989-92, Japan: 1992-95, Burma: 1995-99, Taiwan: 2002-06, Singapore: 2006-08, D.P.R. of Korea as the 1st Director of the French Cooperation Office in Pyongyang: 2011-13, Consul General in Chengdu, P.R. China: 2013-16. Without forgetting Angola: 1984-87 and Fiji: 2016-17. His files have been very diverse, covering in particular foreign policy & cooperation.