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Alex Loktionov is a British-Russian Egyptologist and academic whose research focuses on ancient Egyptian law, justice, government and the history of Egyptology. He is professor of Egyptology at HSE University in Moscow.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of Arts.
Loktionov was born in France to Russian parents and educated in the United Kingdom, completing his A-Levels from The Perse School in Cambridge. He received his B.A in archaeology and anthropology from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge in 2014. He earned his MPhil in Egyptology from St John’s College in 2015. He earned a PhD from Robinson College, Cambridge, in 2019.
In 2017, he held a research fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he studied ancient Egyptian law in its African and Near Eastern contexts.
Loktionov served as a teaching associate in Egyptian language at the University of Cambridge and as a Bye-Fellow at Selwyn College. In 2019, he was appointed Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He joined HSE University in Moscow in 2021 and became professor of Egyptology in 2022, where he started the university’s Egyptology programme. He later became a visiting senior research fellow in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London and a Bye-Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. He also has visiting positions with Christ’s College and the University of Cambridge.
Loktionov’s research focuses on law, justice and legal institutions in ancient Egypt, including courts, law enforcement and the influence of religion. He has also studied the history of Egyptology in Russia and the Soviet Union.
In 2023, he edited Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt, a volume on law enforcement and social conduct in ancient Egyptian society. In 2025, he co-authored an article with Russian Egyptologist Ekaterina Alexandrova on judicial proceedings, religious beliefs and concepts of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
From 2021 to 2024, Loktionov was an investigator of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project The Development of Early Constitutional Thought, which examined legal and governmental structures in ancient Egypt and the Near East.
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