Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1995, he worked for two years as a Senior Associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. McFaul is also a Research Associate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, both at Stanford. He is a widely published author, with articles appearing in magazines, newspapers, and journals worldwide. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies, both from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University in 1991.