Mark Hugo Leonard (born 27 August 1974) is a British

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and author. He is the director of the

European Council on Foreign Relations The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan-European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. Launched in October 2007, it conducts research on European foreign and security policy and provides a meeting space for decis ...

(ECFR), which he founded in 2007. He has been writing for Project Syndicate, an international media organization, since 2004.

Early life and education

Mark Leonard is the son of Dick Leonard, the writer and journalist, and Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, a professor of German literature. His sister is Miriam Leonard, a professor of Greek and Latin. Leonard was a pupil of the European School, Brussels I (ESBI) from where he graduated with a

European Baccalaureate The European Baccalaureate (or EB) is a bilingual educational diploma, which certifies the completion of secondary studies in a European School or Accredited European School by the Board of Governors of the intergovernmental organisation, "The ...

. Leonard graduated from

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...

, where he read social and political sciences. He was chairman of the Cambridge Organisation of Labour Students (now the Cambridge Universities Labour Club) in 1994–5.

Career

Mark Leonard founded the

(ECFR) in October 2007, for which he serves as executive director. He moderates ECFR's weekly podcast "ECFR's World in 30 Minutes". Leonard has been director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, and Foreign Policy Centre.

Publications

*
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century
' (2005) *
What does China think?
' (2008). * ''The Age of Unpeace'' (2021) Freddie Hayward.
Are we living in the age of unpeace?
, newstatesman.com, 29 September 2021.

References

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