Michael McFaul

Michael McFaul is the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow (joint) at the Hoover Institution as well as a professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. From January 2012 to February 2014, he served as US ambassador to the Russian Federation. He is the author of Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder (Mariner Books, 2025) and writes at McFaul’s World (Substack).