Michael McFaul Books, Bio, Wiki, Age, Wife, Russia, And Net Worth

Michael McFaul Bio | Wiki

Michael McFaul ( Full name: Michael Anthony McFaul ) is an American academic and diplomat. He is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. There, he serves as the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Also, Michael is a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. He formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. Currently. Before his nomination to the ambassadorial position, Michael served as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs for the U.S. National Security Council. He was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Russian reset policy in that capacity.

Michael McFaul Age

He was born on October 1, 1963, in Glasgow, Montana, United States of America. Michael is 58 years old.

Michael McFaul Height

He is a man of above-average stature. Michael stands at the height of 5 ft 9 in ( Approx 1.75m)

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Michael McFaul Family

He was born to his father and mother in Glasgow, Montana, United States of America. Michael grew up in Butte and Bozeman, where his dad worked as a musician and music teacher.

Michael McFaul Wife

He is happily married to his wife called Donna Norton. The couple was hitched in 1993. Michael and Donna have two sons named Cole and Luke.

Michael McFaul Education

He attended Bozeman High School where he participated in policy debates. Michael’s partner was current U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R) of Montana. After high school, Michael joined Stanford University. He spent time in the Soviet Union while an undergraduate first in the summer of 1983 studying Russian at the Leningrad State University ( currently Saint Petersburg State University). Them Michael spent a semester in 1985 at Pushkin Institute in Moscow.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations and Slavic language. Later, Michael earned an M.A. in Slavic and East European Studies from Stanford in 1986. He earned a DPhil in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at St John’s College, Oxford, in 1991. Michael wrote his dissertation on U.S. and Soviet intervention in revolutionary movements in southern Africa. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University during the university’s fall commencement.

Michael McFaul Russia

He and one-time close friend and colleague Sergey Markov helped found the Moscow Carnegie Center in 1994 Michael’s past engagement with Russian political figures included a 1994 denunciation of him by the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party called Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and a member of the State Duma (the Russian parliament), and also a subsequent shooting incident in which a shot was fired into Michael’s office window in Moscow. A confidante of Russian President Boris Yeltsin called Alexander Korzhakov, invited Michael 2 years later to the Kremlin during the 1996 Russian presidential election, because of his research on electoral politics.

Michael McFaul Stanford

He was the director of the Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law in his capacity as a professor of political science at the university. Michael is a Democrat, a Hoover Institution Peter, and Helen Bing Senior Fellow. He was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy on Russia. Interview for the news portal Slon.ru in 2012, Michael described himself as a “specialist on democracy, anti-dictator movements, revolutions”.

Michael McFaul Ambassador

He joined the Barack Obama administration in 2009 as a senior adviser in Washington, D.C. There, Michael served as the architect of the so-called “Russian reset” policy. Obama nominated Michael in 2011 to be the 7th post-Soviet United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation. The United States Senate confirmed Michael by unanimous consent on December 17, 2011. He became the first non-career diplomat to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia.

Michael arrived in Russia just as huge protests were erupting over Vladimir Putin’s resumption of the presidency. As ambassador, the Russian state media accused Michael of “fomenting revolution” by meeting with Russian pro-democracy activists and commenting frequently on Twitter in English and Russian. In his Washington Post article, Michael argued that these meetings were in line with Obama’s policy.

He attended the meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in March 2011 in his official White House capacity, which Biden characterized in his memoir as “argumentative.” In 2021, the two met for the second time at the summit. On February 4, 2014, Michael announced his resignation as ambassador to Russia effective after the Sochi Olympics. John F. Tefft was confirmed and he took over as the next ambassador to Russia.

Michael McFaul Books

– 1993 Post-communist Politics: Democratic Prospects In Russia And Eastern Europe (1993)
– 1993 The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs (1993)
– 1995 Understanding Russia’s 1993 Parliamentary Elections: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy (1995)
– 1997 Russia’s 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics (1997)
– 2001 Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2001)
– 2010 Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform (2010)
– 2015 Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2015)
– 2018 From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia (2018)

Michael McFaul Net Worth

He is an American academic and diplomat with an estimated net worth of $ 27 million

How Old Is Michael McFaul

Michael is 58 years old. He was born on October 1, 1963, in Glasgow, Montana, United States of America.

Who Is Michael McFaul

Michael is an American academic and diplomat. He is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. There, he serves as the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.