Mark Galeotti is Clinical Full Professor of Global Affairs at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University.
Education
Born in the United Kingdom, he was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames and Robinson College, Cambridge University, where he read history, and then the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his doctorate in the Government department, under Dominic Lieven, on the impact of the Afghan war on the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Career
He is an expert and prolific author on transnational crime and Russian security affairs Previously, he was the Academic Chair of the Center for Global Affairs. Before moving to New York University, he was head of the history department at Keele University, visiting professor of public security at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers–Newark (2005-2006) and senior research fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1996-1997).
Between 1991 and 2006, he wrote a monthly column on Russian and post-Soviet security issues for Jane"s Intelligence Review (formerly Jane’s Soviet Intelligence Review).
He continues to write for various Jane"s publications, as well as Oxford Analytica, for which he covers Russian security, transnational crime and terrorism issues. In July 2011, he started writing a regular column, Siloviks & Scoundrels, for the Russian newspaper The Moscow News.
He writes on his own blog, In Moscow"s Shadows, as well as guest writing for EUROPP, oD:Russia and other blogs. He is a consultant to various government, commercial and law-enforcement agencies and a senior analyst for Wikistrat.
He is the honorary Founding Editor of the journal Global Crime.