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'.
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 convenes at the most consequential geopolitical and geo-economic moment of the past three decades and against the backdrop of a once-in-a-ce...
In the year of the European Parliament election, the biggest challenge for the European Union is not Euroscepticism and anti-Europeanism but Euro-pessimism.
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”. Durante la crisis de refugiados de ...
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...
La semana pasada, el ministro alemán de asuntos exteriores Sigmar Gabriel interrumpió sus vacaciones en el Mar del Norte para responder al encarcelamiento en Turquía de un activista alemá...
La elección de Emmanuel Macron como presidente de Francia da a la Unión Europea una oportunidad de superar los conflictos internos que han acelerado su desintegración. En vez de una opció...
The United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union and Donald Trump’s election as US president exposed a deep generational divide. Cosmopolitan millennials and nationalist pensioners – ...
El voto del Reino Unido para abandonar la Unión Europea y la elección de Donald Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos expusieron una profunda división generacional. Los millennials cosm...
Antes parecía que las decisiones más importantes que afectan a Europa se tomaban en París, Berlín o Bruselas. Pero estos últimos meses, mientras la Unión Europea confrontaba la crisis de ...
The shock of the British vote to leave the European Union has yet to sink in. Yet European leaders must steel themselves for what is to come. In fact, Brexit might be the initial tremor t...
We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest c...
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...
