Evelyn Farkas is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, president of Farkas Global Strategies, and a national security analyst for NBC/MSNBC. From 2012 to 2015 she was US deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, and from 2010 to 2012 she was senior advisor to the supreme allied commander Europe and special advisor to the US secretary of defense for the NATO Summit.