Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard is Europe’s pre-eminent authority on international relations. He is Director of the pan-European think tank, The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which he founded in 2007. The ECFR has offices in 7 European capitals, a council of 300 European leaders (including serving and former presidents, prime minister, economics and foreign ministers), and an award-winning staff. In this role, he has advised 19 European governments and some of Europe’s biggest companies. His first book, Why Europe will Run the 21st Century, was the most talked about book on Europe for a decade and was translated into 19 languages.