Although by training an historian, Mark Galeotti is an interdisciplinary scholar with interests falling within the realms of politics, criminology, security studies, international relations and anthropology.

Mark is a specialist in Russian security and international politics, intelligence services and criminality, as well as in issues relating to transnational crime, intelligence and modern conflict.

He has been Head of History at Keele University, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, a visiting professor at Rutgers-Newark (Newark), Charles University (Prague), MGIMO (Moscow), and a senior research fellow at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

As well as being the founder and CEO of Mayak Intelligence, he is an Honorary Professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a Senior Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of International Relations, Prague, a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and an Associate Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy. He consults widely for government and commercial clients across Europe and North America.

Mark is a prolific author with some 30 books on Russia, most recently Forged in War: a military history of Russia from its beginnings to today (2024) and Putin's Wars (2022). Since the start of the Ukraine War, he has written regularly for The Spectator and, largely based on these publications, was banned by the Russian government from travelling to Russia in 2022.