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Jonas Parello-Plesner (born 21 November 1973 ) is a Danish security policy expert and director of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, which was founded by the former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Parello-Plesner is a former diplomat for the Kingdom of Denmark. He has worked in China, the USA and Europe. With Mathieu Duchatel, he co-authored the book China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Parello-Plesner is half Danish and French, and his paternal grandparents fled from Spain to France during the Spanish Civil War.

He has commented on TV for CNN, Fox News, Euronews, DR1, DR2 and TV 2 News and has regularly written about Chinese and American foreign policy for the Financial Times, Newsweek and Berlingske, among others. In 2018, he was with the French Navy on freedom of navigation maneuvers in the South China Sea, which he has written about for the Wall Street Journal, The American Interest and on the radio for P1.

Parello-Plesner is also associated with the think tank The German Marshall Fund in Washington DC and has previously worked for the Hudson Institute think tank, also in Washington. From 2013 to 2017, he lived in Washington and, as a Danish diplomat, helped open Danish cooperation with the Donald Trump administration after the election in 2016. Previously, he worked for the European Council on Foreign Relations