Mark Leonard founded the leading independent think tank The Foreign Policy Centre at the age of twenty-four, under the patronage of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and is now Executive Director of The European Council on Foreign Relations. When he was only twenty-three, Mark wrote the famous pamphlet Rebranding Britain, coining the phrase ‘Cool Britannia’. He has written regular commentary for all the leading newspapers and magazines, has presented the BBC’s Analysis programme, and has appeared as a commentator on CNN and on all of Britain’s most prestigious news programmes (from Today and Newsnight to the Jimmy Young Programme and Start the Week). Mark was named by the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential powerful people in Britain.
