Sacha Courtial

Sacha Courtial has been an associate researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute since January 2025, specializing in EU-China relations. He is also chief of staff to Pascal Lamy, coordinating activities between the Jacques Delors Institute and its sister institutions in Berlin (Delors Centre) and Brussels (Europe Jacques Delors), and has been secretary of the EU-China Working Group since January 2023.

Before joining the Institute, he completed internships in renewable energy (EkWateyr), at the National Assembly on CETA and energy-climate policies, and at the European Parliament with the Committee on Budgets.. He is Co-President of Volt France, the French branch of the pan-European political movement Volt Europa and a Fellow of the Open Diplomacy Institute.

Sacha Courtial holds a bachelor’s degree in political science (Sciences Po Rennes) and a master’s degree in European and Chinese economic governance (LSE). He is fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese.