Mark Leonard (director)

{{short description|British political scientist and author (born 27 August 1974)}}

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Mark Hugo Leonard (born 27 August 1974){{Cite web |title=Leonard. Mark Hugo |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01587922/officers?page=2 |access-date=10 September 2021 |website=Companies House}} 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 has been writing for Project Syndicate, an international media organization, since 2004.{{Cite web|url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/mark-leonard|title=Mark Leonard - Project Syndicate|website=Project Syndicate|language=en|access-date=2017-10-18}}

Early life and education

Mark Leonard is the son of Dick Leonard,[https://books.google.com/books?id=iVhnAAAAMAAJ&q=Mark+Leonard+son+Dick+Leonard Labour Camp: The Failure of Style Over Substance], Stephen Bayley, B.T. Batsford, 1998, page 30 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.{{cite book|chapter=Crossing Boundaries through Education: European Schools|last1=Shore|first1=Cris|last2=Baratieri|first2=Daniela|editor1-last=Stacul|editor1-first=Jaro|editor2-last=Moutsou|editor2-first=Christina|editor3-last=Kopnina|editor3-first=Helen|title=Crossing European Boundaries: Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQHz-EEgcCMC&pg=PA37|year=2006|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-84545-150-9|pages=37–}}

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.

Career

Mark Leonard founded the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in October 2007,{{cite journal |first1=José Ignacio |last1=Torreblanca |author-link1=José Ignacio Torreblanca|first2=Mark |last2=Leonard |url=http://ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR79_EUROSCEPTICISM_BRIEF_AW.pdf |title=The Continent-Wide Rise of Euroscepticism |publisher=European Council on Foreign Relations |date=May 2013}} for which he serves as executive director.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/continental-euroscepticism-rise |title=The remarkable rise of continental Euroscepticism |first1=Mark |last1=Leonard |first2=José Ignacio |last2=Torreblanca |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2013-10-03 |accessdate=2014-03-24}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/author/368171-mark-leonard |title=Mark Leonard |publisher=Presseurop.eu |date= |accessdate=2014-03-24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.esiweb.org/enlargement/?cat=56&print=1 |title=» Mark Leonard » Print - EU enlargement - ESI |publisher=Esiweb.org |date=2009-06-06 |accessdate=2014-04-19}}

Publications

[https://archive.org/details/whyeuropewillrun0000leon Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century] (2005) {{cite magazine|last=Leonard |first=Mark |url=http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60708/stanley-hoffmann/why-europe-will-run-the-21st-century |title=Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century |magazine=Foreign Affairs |date=2005-05-01 |accessdate=2014-04-19}}{{cite web|last=Henderson |first=William |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317104824/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/whenders/internationalissues/2006/11/review_of_mark_leonard_on_why.html|title=Alworth Institute: Review of Mark Leonard on Why Europe Will Run the 21st. Century |publisher=Blog.lib.umn.edu |date=2006-11-21 |accessdate=2014-04-19}}{{cite web|last=Gowan|first=Peter|url= https://www.scribd.com/document/179839061/PAX-EUROP%C3%86A-Peter-Gowan|title=PAX EUROPÆA|magazine=New Left Review}}
[https://archive.org/details/whatdoeschinathi0000leon What does China think?] (2008).See the author's profile at http://www.ecfr.eu/profile/C18. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
The Age of Unpeace (2021) Freddie Hayward. "[https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/09/age-unpeace-mark-leonard-globalisation-review Are we living in the age of unpeace?]", newstatesman.com, 29 September 2021.

References

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Category:Alumni of the European Schools

Category:British political scientists

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