Jonas Parello-Plesner
# Jonas Parello-Plesner

Jonas Parello-Plesner (born 21 November 1973) is a Danish security policy expert and head of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, which was founded by former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Parello-Plesner is a former diplomat for Denmark specializing on China, the USA and Europe. Together with Mathieu Duchatel, he wrote the book China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, which describes how China's strategic thinking is affected by having Chinese workers and companies on the front lines in fragile states with concrete studies of Chinese evacuations in Libya in 2011, Sudan in 2013 and Yemen in 2015.

