Hello, Bonjour, 你好, I'm Lianchao :)
A visual thinker, a multimedia creator and a policy analyst based in Paris
Research + Data + Storytelling = My playground
🎓 Dual Master’s in Public Policy
Sciences Po Paris & Hertie School (Berlin)
💼 7 years of professional experience
Agence France-Presse · Asian Development Bank · more
🌍 Languages
Chinese · English · French
🧠 Data Tools
R · SQL · Tableau Python · QGIS
🎬 Creative Tools
Premiere Pro · Audition · Illustrator · Photoshop · Canva
Video, photo, podcasts, and narrative writing
Exploring ideas and evidence to inform change
Clear insights from complex data
Mapping the intersection of population density, healthcare access, and conflict intensity across Sudan, Chad, Mali, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Interactive dashboards highlighting 20 years of China’s global development finance, mapped and analyzed by country and sector.
Rapid urbanisation in Nairobi is placing increasing pressure on essential services such as health and WASH. While overall access appears to be improving, this project uses geospatial analysis to reveal the hidden spatial inequalities behind these averages.
Video Reports
Multimedia reporting with visuals and narratives
China’s drag queens to break free from discrimination | AFP
It remains a touchy topic, and the low-key Shanghai Pride annual festival was held for the 12th time in June with organizers declining media coverage. But China's LGBT community has quietly asserted itself in recent years, forming advocacy groups and challenging the status quo.
China coaxes wayward elephants home | AFP
The elephants, including two born since they’ve been on the road, have travelled over 700km in 16 months, delighting the public but worrying officials. Villagers are ushered inside their homes and a squad of human chaperones helps the 14 elephants pass without any person or animal being injured.
Selected written works in research and reporting
A thesis on equitable genomic data-sharing platforms for global pathogen surveillance, with a focus on accessibility in low- and middle-income countries.
A series of frontline reports from Wuhan during the city’s lockdown and its immediate aftermath, capturing ground-level realities, personal resilience, and the social consequences of containment.
Photo Archive
I’m an amateur landscape photographer :)
