
Khalid Tinasti
Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Director, Mayak Intelligence
Prof. Mark Galeotti is principal director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence, as well as an Honorary Professor at UCL, Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and Middle East Institute.
He specialises in Russian security and political affairs, as well as the murky subjects of modern warfare, intelligence, and transnational and organised crime. He has published widely, with more than 20 authored and edited books to his name. He read history at Robinson College, Cambridge University and then took his doctorate in politics at the London School of Economics. Formerly a lecturer at Keele University in the UK, he rose to become head of its History department.
In that time he spent a year at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, as an adviser covering post-Soviet organised crime and Russian security and intelligence services. In 2009-16, Galeotti was Professor of Global Affairs at New York University and for part of that time, chair of the Centre for Global Affairs. He has also been a visiting fellow at Rutgers-Newark, Charles University (Prague) and MGIMO (Moscow). He has also worked with a wide range of institutions, from NATO and Interpol, to national ministries and intelligence agencies, and commercial clients.
Books authored and edited
Chapters in books
Articles in Peer-reviewed journals
Selected other academic and professional journal articles
Published Reports