Education

Mark Galeotti is senior research fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and principal director of the Mayak Intelligence consultancy. He is a specialist in modern Russian politics, history and security affairs, and transnational and organised crime. Galleotti studied history at Robinson College, Cambridge University and has doctorate in political science at the London School of Economics. In the past he worked as Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, he was head of History at Keele University in the UK. He was also a special advisor at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, covering post-Soviet organised crime and Russian security and intelligence services, and visiting professor at Rutgers—Newark, Charles University (Prague), and MGIMO (Moscow). He has authored and edited several books (his most recent, Hybrid War or Gibridnaya Voina? Getting Russia’s non-linear military challenge right, came out in 2016, forthcoming in 2017  is The Modern Russian Army, 1992 – 2016) and published numerous articles in the academic, professional and popular press. He writes his own blog – In Moscow’s Shadows – about Russian crime and security. He also contributes articles to The Moscow Times and War on the Rocks and is a contributing editor to Business New Europe.