Jean Christophe Iseux von Pfetten

Jean Christophe Iseux, Baron von Pfetten (born November 11,1967) is a diplomat, academic, and senior advisor to the Chinese government. Referred by the press as the "Red Baron" Pfetten served as a specially invited member of the upper house of the Chinese parliament from 2001 to 2005, the first European ever to hold senior public office in the People's Republic of China. In 2013 Pfetten hosted a series of private back-channel meetings on Iran's nuclear program in Oxford and at his home in Burgundy attended by top military commanders from Iran and Israel as well as senior officials from the P5 nations which strongly contributed to the success of the Nuclear Interim Deal achieved in Geneva on November 11, 2013.

Pfetten was born in France. He received his BSc, MSc and Dipl. Eng degrees from the University of Strasbourg and the Institut de Physique du Globe (after being admissible to the Ecole Normale Superieure). In 1989 he patented two inventions in the field of hydraulic fracturing which he presented at the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Production Operations Symposium on April 7–9, 1991 in Oklahoma, USA. He has an MSc in management studies from Templeton College, Oxford University, graduating in 1991. In the same time he also read for an MPhil in International Relations at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.

Pfetten was Charge de Mission at the French Embassy in Bonn, Germany from 1991 to 1992. He was a Research Associate at the Oxford Center for Management Studies, Oxford University from 1992 to 1994 and served as Vice-president of the Think-Tank Oxford Analytica from 1994 to 1996. Pfetten became the youngest Ambassador at the United Nations in Geneva as Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Disarmament between 1996 and 1997.

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