Mark Leonard

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. His essays have appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Le Monde and Süddeutsche Zeitung, and he is the author of best-selling books, e.g. Why Europe will run the 21st Century and What does China think?

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