diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index da3e4d8016d0..90d370c3f921 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -8448,6 +8448,7 @@ PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYSTEM
 M:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
 M:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
 M:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
+R:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
 L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf/core
 S:	Supported