Eric Bouteiller advises several international companies and organizations in their development in China and Asia. He is also Honorary Chairman of Research & Development based Pharmaceutical Association in China (RDPAC).

He joined Ipsen Group as General Manager of Ipsen China (2001–2011). He was then promoted as Senior Vice President for Asia Operations supervising Asian markets for Consumer HealthCare (2012-2017).

He is involved in several prominent business organizations in China. He was one of the founder of Tianjin Chapter of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) that be chaired from 2008 to 2011. He co-founded the “French HealthCare Alliance for China” (2013-2014), who brings together all French companies investing in China. He was Vice Chairman (2011-2015) then Chairman (2016-2017) of the Research & Development based Pharmaceutical Association in China (RDPAC). He has designed and launched the “Coalition for Innovation” with domestic associations which actively supported the new drug policy of China.

Eric is a French Trade Advisor since 2007.

In 1990, he joined HEC Eurasia Institute, a think tank of the HEC School of Management, where he took part in setting up Asian and Chinese strategies for several French and European companies. He was initially in charge of Research, then became Deputy Director of HEC Eurasia Institute.

Eric Bouteiller holds a PhD in Organizational Sociology and speaks fluently French, English and Mandarin.

Selected books written by Eric: 

• « Le Développement économique de l’Asie orientale » (The Economic Development of the Far East), with Michel Fouquin, La Découverte, Paris 2001, 125 p.
• « Corporate strategies in Emerging Economies », with Jean Paul Larcon, HEC Foundation, Jouy-en-Josas 1999, 100 p.
• « Les Nouveaux Empereurs, l’Epopée du capitalisme chinois » (The New Emperors, the Epopee of Chinese Capitalism), Calmann-Levy, Paris 1997, 329 p.