Mark Galeotti
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Biography
Mark Galeotti is senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Pragueand coordinator of its Centre for European Security. He is also a lecturer at the Department of Security Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. He is an expert and prolific author on transnational crime and Russian security affairs.
Previously, he was 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 (2005-6) and senior research fellow at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1996–97). He has also been a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow) and Charles University (Prague).
Born in the UK, he was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames and Robinson College, Cambridge, 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 USSR.
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, until the newspaper's closure in 2014.
He writes on his own blog, In Moscow's Shadows as well as guest writing for 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.
Other activities
He 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.