Mark Leonard (director)

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Mark Leonard (born 1974) is a British political scientist, and author. He is the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations ECFR which he founded in 2007. He is the son of Dick Leonard, the writer and journalist, and Irène Heidelberger-Leonard, a professor of German literature.

Career

In 2005, he wrote a book called Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century.[1][2] His second book, What does China think? was published in 2008.[3]

Mark Leonard founded the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in October 2007,[4] for which he serves as executive director.[5]

Leonard has been director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, and Foreign Policy Centre.[6][7]

Education

Leonard graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 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.

References

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