LegiStorm

Biographical

Education

• Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - PhD, international relations (1999)

  Activities and notes: Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow; Morris Abrams Award in International Relations; U.S. Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies Doctoral Fellowship; Frank Rockwell Barnett Memorial Grant; Sara Scaife Grant

• Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy - MALD, international relations (1993-1995)

  Activities and notes: Charles Francis Adams Scholarship; William H. Donner Foundation Grant; International Security Studies Program Grant

• Franklin & Marshall College - BA, government and German (1989)

  Activities and notes: Pi Sigma Alpha

• University of Freiburg (Germany) (1987)

Employment History

• McCain Institute for International Leadership (May 2022-)

  Executive Director

• Farkas Global Strategies LLC (Feb. 2016-May 2022)

  President

• 17th Congressional District of New York (Nov. 2019-June 2020)

  Democratic Primary Candidate

• Atlantic Council (Feb. 2016-Oct. 2018)

  Nonresident Senior Fellow

• U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Under Secretary for Policy (Aug. 2012-2015)

  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia

• U.S. European Command (March 2010-Aug. 2012)

  Senior Adviser to Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and Commander

• U.S. Department of Defense (April 2012-June 2012)

  Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense to the NATO Summit

• American Security Project (May 2009-July 2010)

  Senior Fellow

• Senate Armed Services Committee (April 2001-May 2008)

  Professional Staff Member, Democratic

• John Kerry for President Inc. (2004)
  John Forbes Kerry

  Deputy Director, Defense Task Force

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (July 1996-Nov. 1996)

  Human Rights Officer

• House Foreign Affairs Committee (May 1993-Aug. 1993)
  Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN)

  Rosenthal Fellow

• Council on Foreign Relations (1989-1990)

  Staff Assistant/Staff Associate

Associated Organizations

• River Foundation

  Co-Founder

• Harold Rosenthal Fellowship in International Relations

  Member, Board of Advisers

• Aspen Institute

  Member, Socrates Program Board of Advisers

• River Foundation (Nov. 2006-April 2007)

  Director

Contact Information

Main Office
1800 I St. NW
Sixth Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20006
Phone: (202) 601-4296
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Privately Financed Travel

2 trips taken between 2003 - 2007 costing $2,542

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a staffer:

Disclosures as a candidate:

Congressional Salary