Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard's work experience includes roles at various organizations in the fields of foreign policy, global economics, and social sciences. Mark co-founded and directed the European Council on Foreign Relations starting in 2006. In 2016, they were a fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. From 2014 to 2016, they served as Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics at the World Economic Forum. In 2008, they were selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Mark also served as the Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform from 2005 to 2006 and as a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2006. Additionally, they worked as the Director of the Foreign Policy Centre from 1998 to 2004, a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in 2003, and a Senior Researcher at Demos from 1996 to 1998.

Mark Leonard attended European School, Brussels II from 1984 to 1992, where they obtained their European Baccalaureate. Mark then pursued higher education at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 1996, earning their MA degree in Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences. In 2009, Mark Leonard briefly attended the Harvard Kennedy School for Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century.