Cedric Alviani, a French national and graduate from the CUEJ journalism center in Strasbourg, serves as East-Asia Bureau Director for the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (also known under the French name Reporters sans frontières and its acronym RSF). Cedric has lived in Asia since 1999 directing projects at the intersection of diplomacy, culture and media. The RSF East-Asia Bureau was opened in April 2017 in Taipei and focuses on China, Hong Kong-Macau, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia.