Vadim Nikitin
Vadim Nikitin has spent 15 years in the private intelligence industry. He writes about financial crime and post-Soviet politics for the London Review of Books and has also been published in the Guardian, The New York Times and The Nation. Born precariously close to the Soviet Union’s largest nuclear submarine base but raised in Surrey, Vadim holds a BA in government from Harvard and an MSc in sociology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Past courses
Symposium Event
30 October 2026
Spies Like Us: The Rise of London’s Private Intelligence Industry
The now-infamous dossier on Donald Trump by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele shone rare light on the meteoric rise of London’s shadowy and largely unregulated private intelligence industry, one staffed largely by former spies and investigative journalists.
