Mikhail Troitskiy is a visiting scholar at the Davis Center and a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 2023-2024 he was professor of practice in Russian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research on conflicts, security, and international negotiation has been published in WIREs Climate Change, Problems of Postcommunism, Survival, Global Policy, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other journals. In 2009-2015, Troitskiy was deputy director and program officer at the Moscow office of the MacArthur Foundation. He taught at the European University in St. Petersburg in 2014-2022, and at MGIMO University in Moscow in 2003-2022.