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Languages: English, French, German
Areas of Expertise: Geo-politics and Geo-economics, China, EU-Russia relations, transatlantic relations, EU institutions, Public diplomacy and nation branding, UK foreign policy
Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank.
He writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Reuters.com and is Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics.
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 Mark 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.
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, 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 2008 and translated into 15 languages. He has published an edited volume on Connectivity Wars and is working on a future book on the same topic.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR’s U.N. expert Richard Gowan among other things about Trump and Macron's addresses at the UNGA, the Korean nuclear crisis, the Iran deal and the Syrian peace process.
The podcast was recorded on 21st September 2017.
Bookshelf:
John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
Hillary Clinton, What Happened
Zygmunt Bauman, Retrotopia
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the head of ECFR’s Berlin Office Josef Janning and ECFR's policy fellow Ulrike Franke about the upcoming federal elections in Germany, the parties that are in the running to form a government and the implications for European and foreign policy.
The podcast was recorded on 18th September 2017.
Entretien avec Mark Leonard, directeur de l'ECFR, sur son dernier rapport "L'Europe qui protège : penser l'Union européenne à venir".
by Mark Leonard - 30th August, 2017
The EU’s survival depends on protecting its citizens from the forces it has created
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For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Cathy O'Neil, an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books on data science.
Bookshelf:
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil's contributions to Bloomberg.com
The investigative journalism of ProPublica.org
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Pankaj Mishra, author and writer of literary and political essays.
Bookshelf:
Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
C. A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the host of The Good Fight podcast to talk about the sustainability of democracy in the liberal international order.
Bookshelf:
Yascha Mounk, The People Versus Democracy
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available here
Edward Luce, The Retreat of Liberalism
Ivan Krastev, After Europe
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
by Mark Leonard - 30th August, 2017
The EU’s survival depends on protecting its citizens from the forces it has created
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by Susi Dennison , Mark Leonard, Nick Witney - 16th May, 2016
A British exit from the EU would make it harder to fight crime and terrorism, reduce Britain’s ability to lead and influence its partners, and weaken NATO
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by Dennison et al. - 28th January, 2016
The sixth ECFR Foreign Policy Scorecard highlights the EU's diminishing ability to influence its neighbours, and the neighbourhood's growing impact on the EU.
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by Ulrike Esther Franke, Mark Leonard - 20th January, 2016
Why migration, finance and trade are the geo-economic battlegrounds of the future
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by Mark Leonard - 26th March, 2015
Chinesische Experten und Intellektuelle analysieren im ECFR-Essayband „China 3.0“ die politischen Trends, die das neue China ausmachen.
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Mark Leonard - 02 August 2017
Berlin's firmer line on Turkey confirms Germany's status as a major economic power.
Mark Leonard - 09 June 2017
The UK election result emphatically confirmed the sense that the political class is out of touch with popular sentiment.
Mark Leonard - 30 May 2017
To bring true change, Macron will have to reconcile technocracy and populism.
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Ulrike Esther Franke & Mark Leonard - 03 May 2017
Donald Trump's government is increasingly taking aim at Germany – it is time for Berlin to acknowledge the potential danger.
Mark Leonard - 21 April 2017
Europe must address seriously the possibility of Marine Le Pen winning, however unlikely it may seem.
Mark Leonard - 30 March 2017
Even those who seem to take Trump seriously are failing to get to the root of Trumpism.
Mark Leonard - 01 March 2017
As global power has shifted from the West to the “rest,” the liberal world order has become an increasingly contested idea.
Mark Leonard - 16 February 2017
The five forces that are 'liquidising' global security.
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR’s U.N. expert Richard Gowan among other things about Trump and Macron's addresses at the UNGA, the Korean nuclear crisis, the Iran deal and the Syrian peace process.
The podcast was recorded on 21st September 2017.
Bookshelf:
John Le Carré, A Legacy of Spies
Hillary Clinton, What Happened
Zygmunt Bauman, Retrotopia
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the head of ECFR’s Berlin Office Josef Janning and ECFR's policy fellow Ulrike Franke about the upcoming federal elections in Germany, the parties that are in the running to form a government and the implications for European and foreign policy.
The podcast was recorded on 18th September 2017.
Entretien avec Mark Leonard, directeur de l'ECFR, sur son dernier rapport "L'Europe qui protège : penser l'Union européenne à venir".
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Cathy O'Neil, an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books on data science.
Bookshelf:
Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil's contributions to Bloomberg.com
The investigative journalism of ProPublica.org
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Pankaj Mishra, author and writer of literary and political essays.
Bookshelf:
Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the Present
Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
C. A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the host of The Good Fight podcast to talk about the sustainability of democracy in the liberal international order.
Bookshelf:
Yascha Mounk, The People Versus Democracy
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available here
Edward Luce, The Retreat of Liberalism
Ivan Krastev, After Europe
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Carl Bildt, a former prime minister of Sweden and ECFR's co-chair, to talk about Internet governance and cybersecurity.
Carl argues that Europe is far behind China and the US in terms of internet governance. Data encryption, free flow of date and regulation of state surveillance: EU countries definitely have a busy schedule ahead.
Bookshelf:
Report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, available here
Internet Society website, available here
ECFR, Europe's Digital Power, available here
In episode 5 Mark is joined by ECFR's Anthony Dworkin and Professor Mary Kaldor, who is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics, to talk about new wars and foreign interventions.
According to Mary, it is no longer a question of whether or not to intervene in foreign conflicts but how to do so. She upholds that the only way to end new wars is to negotiate political solutions that involve local movements and civil society.
Bookshelf:
Christine Chinkin & Mary Kaldor, International Law and New Wars
Stephen Neff, War and the Law of Nations
Mark Leonard publica una tribuna en El País sobre si podría surgir el fenómeno Trump en Alemania.
Mark Leonard, publica en El País una tribuna sobre las expectativas de la alianza entre Merkel y Macron.
"Atlantico" published an article about Mark Leonard's commentary "Germany's new power of the purse".
Berlin's firmer line on Turkey confirms Germany's status as a major economic power, writes Mark Leonard.
Mark Leonard quoted in "La Tribune" about the meeting between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron.
Mark Leonard is cited on the increased willingness of international leaders to stand up to Donald Trump.
Mark Leonard discusses how Trump has affected European political developments positively.
If the US chooses to retreat from the global stage, Europe might be emerge as winner out of it, argue Mark Leonard and Sebastian Dullien.
Email: mark.leonard@ecfr.eu
Tel: +44 (0)20 7227 6869