Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard is Director of Foreign Policy at the London-based Centre for European Reform where he writes on Europe's relations with the United States, the Middle East and China. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st Century, was published in the UK in February 2005. He is a member of the British Government's "Public Diplomacy Strategy Board," which advises the Foreign Secretary on how to present Britain around the world.

He was responsible for drafting a public diplomacy strategy for the British Government in the Middle East after September 11. Mark has also worked with the European Commission on communicating Europe, the Norwegian Government on Norwegian public diplomacy, and the National Audit Office on "Blue Sky Thinking" on ways of measuring foreign policy effectiveness.

Until the beginning of 2005, Mark was Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank he helped found at the age of 24, under the patronage of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. (2006)

Events

March 14, 2006