John W. Slocum
Director, Migration and Human Mobility
Co-Chair, Higher Education Initiative in Russia

Email: jslocum at macfound dot org

John Slocum is the Director of Global Migration and Human Mobility, and Co-Chair of the Higher Education Initiative in Russia.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 1997, Slocum was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma, and held a postdoctoral position at Cornell University's Peace Studies Program. He has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union and is the author of several publications on issues of nationality and state-formation in Tsarist and contemporary Russia, and on the external relations of Tatarstan, part of the Russian Federation. In Summer 2005, Slocum was a visiting fellow at the Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society in Berlin. His latest research compares U.S. and German foundation assistance to Russia, and examines the development of Russia’s philanthropic sector.

Slocum's undergraduate degree is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his master's and Ph.D. (in political science) are from the University of Chicago.

Igor Zevelev
Director, Moscow Office

Email: izevelev at macfound dot org

Igor comes to the Foundation with strong academic credentials and varied experience as a scholar, teacher, and analyst of Russian politics, foreign policy, and international security. He holds a Doctor of Sciences degree in political science from the Institute of International Relations and World Economy (IMEMO) in Moscow, where he served as Deputy Director and Head of Department at the Center for Developing Countries. He has held visiting professorships at Macalester College, the University of California at Berkeley, San Jose State University, and the University of Washington, and taught for five years at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. He has published five books and numerous articles. He comes to MacArthur after having served as Washington Bureau Chief for the RIA Novosti Russian News and Information Agency.

Mikhail Troitskiy
Associate Director, Russia Office

Email: mtroitsk at macfound dot org

Mikhail Troitskiy joined the Foundation on December 18, 2009, as the Associate Director of the Moscow Office.

He has ten years of experience in researching and teaching international politics and managing projects in the nonprofit sector. He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (2003). In 2003-09, Mikhail worked at MGIMO University in Moscow as associate professor and deputy dean of the School of Political Affairs. He has held visiting fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as well as at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. In 2000-2009, he was deputy director at the Academic Educational Forum on International Relations, a Moscow-based entity promoting scholarship and training in the field of international relations. Troitskiy has published a research monograph and a series of book chapters, articles and papers in both Russian and English.

Elvira A. Orlova
Grants Coordinator

Olga Bazhenova
Chief Accountant

Galina Ustinova
Program Associate

Olga Abalakina
Program Assistant

Maria A. Shatrova
Program Assistant

Igor G. Kadiaev
Technical Assistant

Zoya Fedorova
Office Services Assistant