Mark Galeotti, Surrey, England, 1965, is an author specialising in the history and security affairs of modern Russia and transnational and organised crime past and present. Educated at Robinson College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics, he was head of the Department of History at Keele and a lecturer at the Centre for Global Affairs at the School of Professional Studies, New York University. After a period in Moscow, he moved to the Czech Republic, where he was a senior fellow and head of the European Security Centre at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. He is currently director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and an honorary professor at UCL SSEES. He is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a senior fellow at the IIR and the Middle East Institute’s Frontier Europe initiative. He has been associated with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as an advisor on Russian foreign and security policy, and has been a Professor of Public Security at the School of Criminal Justice (Rutgers-Newark, USA), a regular visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow) and Charles University (Prague). His most recent books are A Brief History of Russia (2021), We Need to Talk About Putin (2019) and Russian Political War: Moving Beyond the Hybrid (2019). Founding editor of Global Crime magazine, he was European editor of Low-Intensity Conflict & Law Enforcement, is a member of the editorial boards of Crime & Justice International and The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, a contributing editor of IntelliNews Business New Europe and a regular columnist for Raam op Rusland.
