Born in Canada, Jeanne-Marie Gescher is a graduate of the universities of Durham and Aix-en-Provence, and a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.
After founding one of the earliest private advisory firms in China, Jeanne-Marie has been honorary legal advisor to successive British ambassadors to the PRC from 1989 to 2015; she is a twice-elected former chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China.

Awarded an OBE for her China work in 2001, she continues to be a long-term advisor on strategy, geopolicy and geovolution to individual business leaders, and an advisor on China to a number of policy institutions and non-governmental organisations. She is also a Senior Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London University. Less