Mark Leonard is co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think- tank. He is author of two best-selling books, Why Europe will run the 21st Century and What does China think? that have been published in over 20 languages. He has spent time in Washington as a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy and in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Previously he founded the Foreign Policy Centre and worked as a researcher at Demos where his report Britain (TM) started a global debate about rebranding Britain. He is a former vice chair of the Young Fabians and co-founder of its magazine Anticipations.