Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas

Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas is the Executive Director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Prevention and Terrorism. From April 2001 to April 2008, she served as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her issue areas included foreign and defense policy in Asia Pacific, Western Hemisphere, Special Operations Command (policy and budget oversight), foreign military assistance, peace and stability operations, the military effort to combat terrorism, counternarcotics programs, homeland defense, and export control policy. Prior to assuming that position she served for four years on the faculty of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University as Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of International Relations. She served in Bosnia for five months as a Human Rights Officer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) during 1996, and as an Election Supervisor in 1997.

Her publications include journal articles and opinion pieces in The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times on issues including Balkan peace operations and military readiness. She is also the author of Fractured States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Ethiopia, and Bosnia in the 1990s (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2003), which is forthcoming in paperback in 2008. Dr. Farkas obtained her MA and Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Security Studies, Women in International Security Studies, and on the Advisory Board for the Harold Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations and the Aspen Institute Socrates Scholar Program, and a co-founder of The River Foundation, which assists orphans in Afghanistan. She speaks fluent Hungarian and German, as well as some French, Spanish, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, and Hindi.