Following the recent three-day visit to China by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron, a debate emerged on the timing of the visit, as well as the impact it had on the EU-China relationship.

Join this exclusive European Chamber national online event, with Jorge Toledo, EU Ambassador to China, and Madam Myriam Pavageau, Deputy Head of mission, French Embassy in China. They will provide a debrief on this important trip, to understand the key messages conveyed to China, as well as how it has influenced the trajectory of EU-China relations.

This event will take place in a hybrid format.

* Limited onsite seating will be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis with deadline by 12pm 17^th April. 

Agenda

14:00-15:00 Debrief from Ambassador Toledo and Madam Pavageau followed by Q&A,

                    moderated by Jörg Wuttke, President, European Chamber

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Speakers

Mr. Jorge Toledo Albiñana

Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to China

Mr. Jorge Toledo Albiñana

Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to China

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After taking his Degree in Law and entering the Diplomatic School in Spain, Ambassador Toledo joined the Spanish Foreign Service in 1989. Since then, except for three years in Senegal, where he was Ambassador of Spain from 2008 to 2011, his career has been devoted mostly to European Union Affairs. Among others, he was Spanish Secretary of State for the EU and European Affairs. In Asia, he has been posted to India and Japan before arriving to China in September 2022 as the Ambassador of the European Union.

Ambassador Toledo strongly believes in the European integration and that only together can EU Member States have a meaningful relation and dialogue with a strong world power as China.

He is married and has two children.

Ms. Myriam Pavageau

Deputy head of mission at the French Embassy in China

Ms. Myriam Pavageau

Deputy head of mission at the French Embassy in China

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Myriam Pavageau has been serving as Deputy head of mission at the French Embassy in China since the beginning of 2023. Beijing was her first posting overseas in 2011. She previously headed the Cultural cooperation department of the French Embassy in Iran (2019-2022).
She worked on Asia and strategic affairs at the Ministry of European and Foreign affairs in Paris, both as a desk officer (2008-2011) and later as an Advisor to the Minister (2017-2019).
She also gained experience on development issues while being assigned to the French Embassy in Chad (2014-2017).
Myriam Pavageau is a graduate from the Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), the College of Europe (Bruges) and the INALCO (Langues O).

Mr. Jörg Wuttke

President, European Chamber; Chief Representative China, BASF (China) Co., Ltd.

Mr. Jörg Wuttke

President, European Chamber; Chief Representative China, BASF (China) Co., Ltd.

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Jörg Wuttke is Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Wuttke is President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China – an office he already held from 2007 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017. Wuttke is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. He contributes regularly to the Swiss financial blog https://themarket.ch/. Wuttke has lived in Beijing for more than three decades.

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