Cyril is a policy and programme management professional with 20 years’ of leading organisational development experience for the UN, French Foreign ministry and several INGOs. He has held a number of leading positions in diplomacy and development in China for a total of 10 years.

 

He is experienced at building relations with senior Chinese officials and providing advice to policy dialogues with China, implementing programmes that aim for policy influence as well as improved conditions at grassroots level. Cyril has successfully lead the registration of a foreign organisation under the new Chinese INGO law, ensuring legal compliance and providing feedback on the implementation challenges of this law to the relevant authorities. His negotiation and partnership building experiences in China has allowed him to work effectively with Chinese Party-State institutions on stated policy advocacy objectives through policy proposals submitted to the National People’s Congress (NPC) and to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) representatives at national and provincial level.

 

He has strong M&E credentials, and an in-depth understanding of the challenges of measuring impact in the current Chinese context. He has broad experience designing, managing and implementing innovative ODA-funded rule of law and civil society programmes in complex environments.

 

At the GBCC, Cyril is responsible to the successful delivery of projects and programmes, including the bilateral political dialogues, lead the Criminal Justice and Rule of Law legal reform projects, and the “China capabilities” training portfolios, as well as managing relationships with institutional donors and sponsors. He was GBCC lead for the consortium with PwC on a major China Business Environment Programme.

 

Cyril graduated with first class honors from the University of Sorbonne Paris IV with a master’s degree in Humanities in 1996.