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Staff Profile: Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard is Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think-tank. Previously he worked as Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform, and Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank he founded under the patronage of Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the age of 24. In the 1990s Mark worked for the think-tank Demos where his Britain™ report was credited with launching Cool Britannia. Mark has spent time in Washington as a Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences.

He spends a lot of time helping governments, companies and international organisations make sense of the big geo-political trends of the 21 century and he is regular speaker and a prolific writer and commentator on global issues, the future of Europe, China's internal politics, and the practice of diplomacy and business in a networked world. His essays appear regularly in publications including The Financial Times, The New York Times, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais, Gazeta Wyborcza, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, Time, and Newsweek.

As well as writing and commenting frequently on global affairs in the media, Mark is author of two best-selling books. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in 2005 and translated into 19 languages. Mark’s second book, “What does China think?” was published in February 2008 and translated into 15 languages.

Languages: English, French, German

Expertise: European Foreign Policy, China, Transatlantic Relations, EU Institutions, Public Diplomacy and Nation branding, UK Foreign Policy

Contact: write to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), or call +44 (0)20 7227 6869

Recent Publications include:

ECFR publications

Four scenarios for the reinvention of Europe, ECFR Essay, November 2011

The New German Question : How Europe can get the Germany it needs, ECFR policy brief with Ulrike Guérot, May 2011

The Spectre of a Multipolar Europe, ECFR Security Report, by Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev, with Jana Kobzova, Dimitar Bechev and Andrew Wilson, October 2010

Re-wiring the US-EU relationship, ECFR memo, by Mark Leonard, Ulrike Guérot and Daniel Korski, 8 December 2008

Can the EU win the peace in Georgia?, ECFR policy brief, by Mark Leonard, Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu, 25 August 2008

A Power Audit of EU-Russia relations, ECFR report, by Mark Leonard and Nicu Popescu, 7 November 2007

New World Order: The balance of soft power and the rise of herbivorous powers, ECFR policy brief, by Mark Leonard and Ivan Krastev, 24 October 2007

Journalism:

What the rise and fall of Bo Xilai tells us about China's future, Sunday Telegraph, 18 March 2012

Will the Europeans ever get their act together on security? The Security Times, February 2012

L'éclatement de l'Europe est un risque réel, Le Monde, 9 November 2011

La necesidad y la imposibilidad de más Europa, El Pais, 4 November 2011

A marginalised Britain makes the break-up of the EU more likely, New Statesman, 31 October 2011

Europe’s Multipolar Neighborhood, Carnegie Europe - Strategic Europe, 30 September 2011

Nie ma Europy jednej prędkości, Gazeta Wyborcza, 9 September 2011