Parsifal D’Sola Alvarado is Founder and Executive Director of the Andrés Bello Foundation – China–Latin America Research Center. He is an analyst of Chinese foreign policy specializing in Sino–Latin American relations with a particular focus on Venezuela. Parsifal is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. In 2019, he served as an advisor on Chinese foreign policy for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela’s interim government. He lived in Beijing from 2008 to 2016, where he worked as Communications Manager and Researcher at the news agency China Files. Parsifal holds a B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela), an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University (United States), an M.A. in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (United Kingdom), and a Diploma in Advanced Chinese Language Studies from Beijing Language and Culture University (China).