Mark Leonard

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; and the brother of Miriam Leonard, a professor of Greek and Latin. He has been writing for Project Syndicate, an international media organization, since 2004.