Mark Galeotti


Mark Galeotti is a lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs. He is an Honorary Professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, as well as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and previously head of its Centre for European Security. Now based in London, for the academic year 2018-19 he is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute.
Formerly, he was Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. Before moving to NYU, he was head of the history department at Keele University, visiting professor of public security at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers–Newark and senior research fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has also been a visiting professor at MGIMO and Charles University.
Born in the UK, he was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames and Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied 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 USSR.
Between 1991 and 2006, he wrote a monthly column on Russian and post-Soviet security issues for Jane's 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, until the newspaper's closure in 2014.
He writes on his own blog, In Moscow's Shadows as well as guest writing for Raam op Rusland, EUROPP, oD:Russia, the International Policy Digest, and other blogs. He also contributes articles to The Moscow Times and War on the Rocks and is a contributing editor to Business New Europe.

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Galeotti is a consultant to various government, commercial, and law-enforcement agencies and a senior analyst for Wikistrat. He is the Founding Editor of the journal Global Crime. He is also a member of the international advisory board of the Mob Museum.
He has also worked on several Glorantha-related books and fanzines. and wrote the HeroQuest -engined standalone RPG Mythic Russia. He's as well the author of 1991's Cyberpunk 2020 RPG expansion guidebook Eurosource.