Dmitriy Georgievich Krasilnikov (born 5 May 1971, in Kungur, USSR) is a Russian politologist, a public character, Doctor of Political Science, a professor, and a rector of the Perm University (since 2020).

In 2002, he defended his doctoral thesis “Intersystem political situations in Russia in the XX century” and was awarded the rank of associate professor.

Since 2011, he has been working as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal «Ars administrandi»[1] Archived 2022-05-21 at the Wayback Machine.

On 2 November 2011 Krasilnikov had become a Prorector for Strategic Development, Economics and Legal Issues of the Perm University.

He studied the directions of administrative reform, researched the forms of the regional governance and socio-economic development of territories in Russia.