Michael McFaul

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Michael Anthony McFaul (born 1965 in Montana) is a professor of political science and director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He is a noted authority on Russian politics.

Dr. McFaul is also a non-resident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Eurasia Foundation, the Firebird Fund, Freedom House, the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy, and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX).

He is the author and editor of several monographs including, with Anders Aslund, [Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough] (2006) with Nikolai Petrov and Andrei Ryabov, [Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Postcommunist Political Reform] (2004); with Kathryn Stoner Weiss, [After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions] (2004); with Timothy Colton, [Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000] (2003); [Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin] (2001); and with Tova Perlmutter, Privatization, Conversion and Enterprise Reform in Russia (1995). He serves on the editorial boards of Current History, Journal of Democracy, Demokratizatsiya, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, and The Washington Quarterly. He has served as a consultant for numerous companies and government agencies.

Dr. McFaul comments frequently in the national media on American foreign policy and international politics. He has appeared on all major television and radio networks, while his opeds have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Moscow Times, New Republic, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Weekly Standard.

Dr. McFaul's current research interests include democracy promotion, comparative democratization, and the relationship between political and economic reform in the postcommunist world.

Dr. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in International Relations in 1991.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and Slavic languages and his Master of Arts in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford where he completed his Ph.D. in international relations in 1991. He is an advisor on matters of democracy and Russia. He has written numerous books on democratic transitions.