About Michael
Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science at Stanford University, where he has been on faculty since 1995. He served as Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies from 2015 to 2025, and is a Senior Fellow at both FSI and the Hoover Institution. He previously served in the Obama administration as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014).
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AuthorExpert / AcademicPolitician / DiplomatConsultant / AdvisorAuthoritarianismChinaDemocracyInternational RelationsRussiaU.S. Foreign Policy
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- expertise on Russia and China authoritarianism
- U.S. Ambassador to Russia
- National Security Council senior director for Russian affairs
- Stanford professor of political science
- author on international relations and democracy
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