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Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think tank. His topics of focus include geopolitics and geoeconomics, China, EU politics and institutions.
Leonard hosts the weekly podcast “Mark Leonards’s World in 30 Minutes” and writes a syndicated column on global affairs for Project Syndicate. 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, Leonard 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.
He was Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics until 2016.
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, Leonard is author of several best-selling books the have appeared in over 20 languages. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in 2005. His second book, What does China think? was published in 2008 and his latest book "The Age of Unpeace" was published by Penguin in 2022 and named a Financial Times 'Book of the Year'.
Últimos Artículos
Foro Institucional
5 experts on how to advance global peace and stability in a new era of geopolitics
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 convenes at the most consequential geopolitical and geo-economic moment of the past three decades and against the backdrop of a once-in-a-ce...
Geografías en profundidad
The EU's biggest challenge isn't Euroscepticism, it's Euro-pessimism
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Geografías en profundidad
La crisis de Europa comienza en casa
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La ilusión de la libertad en la era digital
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Alemania hace valer su billetera
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Geografías en profundidad
El método Macron
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Geografías en profundidad
Why the US election and Brexit exposed deep generational divides
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Cooperación Global
En lugar de defender al status quo, la clase política debería trabajar para crear un sistema nuevo
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Geografías en profundidad
Frente a una Europa multipolar
Antes parecía que las decisiones más importantes que afectan a Europa se tomaban en París, Berlín o Bruselas. Pero estos últimos meses, mientras la Unión Europea confrontaba la crisis de ...
Geografías en profundidad
Brexit: 'The initial tremor that triggers a tsunami'?
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Perspectivas Juveniles
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Liderazgo
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Geo-economía y Política
5 cosas que debemos saber sobre la geoeconomía
A falta de un liderazgo global eficaz, las normas y los estándares globales se están erosionando, con un consecuente giro hacia un mundo multipolar en el que las grandes potencias compite...