Mark Galeotti

Mark Galeotti is a British historian whose work centres on Russian security affairs, transnational crime, and Kremlin strategy. He directs the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and holds an honorary professorship at UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy and previously served as a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.

As one of the most cited Western analysts on Russian military thinking and strategic risk, Galeotti’s assessments of Kremlin decision-making and the probability of escalation with NATO are directly relevant to the operational context in which autonomous weapons systems are being developed and deployed.