Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank. His topics of focus include geopolitics and geoeconomics, China, EU politics and institutions.
Leonard hosts the weekly podcast “Mark Leonards’s World in 30 Minutes” and writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Project Syndicate. Previously he worked as director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform and as director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think tank he founded at the age of 24 under the patronage of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In the 1990s, Leonard worked for the think tank Demos where his Britain™ report was credited with launching Cool Britannia. Mark has spent time in Washington, D.C. 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 was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics until 2016.
Honoured as a “Young Global Leader” of the World Economic Forum, he spends a lot of time helping governments, companies, and international organisations make sense of the big geo-political trends of the twenty-first century. He is a regular speaker and 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 have appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, 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 in the media on global affairs, Leonard is author of several best-selling books the have appeared in over 20 languages. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in 2005. His second book, What does China think? was published in 2008 and his latest book "The Age of Unpeace" was published by Penguin in 2022 and named a Financial Times 'Book of the Year'.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine signals the emergence of new era of geopolitics with heightened fears over security, economics, energy, and ideological interests.
In a survey carried out by the European Council on Foreign Relations, there is a sharp difference between people’s lived reality and their views on the future of the European project.
Las profundas divisiones dentro de Europa amenazan cada vez más los valores en los cuales se basa el proyecto europeo de “unión cada vez más estrecha”
A lo largo de las últimas semanas, los medios de comunicación de todo el mundo se han visto saturados con artículos sobre cómo la tecnología está destruyendo la política. En autocracias c...
Hasta ahora, el quiebre entre Alemania y Estados Unidos fue ante todo retórico. Pero Merkel empezó a reforzar la posición geopolítica de Alemania, mediante la diversificación de sus alian...
Si Macron cumple sus promesas, no defenderá ni la tecnocracia ni el populismo, sino una auténtica tercera vía.
Mark Leonard evaluates the crisis of political representation, and the generational differences that have emerged.
Los millennials cosmopolitas y los pensionados nacionalistas -lo que Thomas Friedman llama "la gente web" y "la gente muro"- no parecen tener nada en común. Pero ambos apuntan a la misma ...
Las próximas semanas serán una prueba de la determinación de Europa respecto de las sanciones contra Rusia y del acuerdo con Turquía
Mark Leonard on how Brexit could cause a wave of referendums across Europe in revolt of the EU.
Mark Leonard looks at migration in the modern world.
A falta de un liderazgo global eficaz, las normas y los estándares globales se están erosionando, con un consecuente giro hacia un mundo multipolar en el que las grandes potencias compite...
