Thammy Evans is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center and has spent the last twenty years of her career in Security and Justice Sector Reform, where her main area of focus is in defense reform and governance particularly in light of ongoing conflict and climate resource pressures. She advises donors and multilaterals on policy and strategy development for SJSR support to third countries; and presents and lectures regularly on a variety of security and justice topics.

Spanning a broad career in security, climate, and public information, Evans has worked in government, NGO, and the private sector. She was deputy head of the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT) of the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance and Reform (DCAF), working closely with the United Nations and the African Union. She was political advisor to the senior military representative of NATO HQ Skopje as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia undertook deep reforms to join NATO and the EU. She worked for the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado on vehicle lightweighting, conducting business development in China, and looking at resource and environmental impacts and solutions. She has also served as an officer in the British Army and worked for the UK Ministry of Defence variously on non-lethal operational approaches, vision and strategy development, partner capacity building, and on Balkans, African, Asian, and climate security. Her early career provided a foundation in public relations and international qualitative market research in the private and public sector, as well as business development harnessing systems thinking and resource efficiency.

A graduate in Chinese and German Studies from the University of Leeds, UK, she holds a Master of Science in Conflict Studies from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She has a certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership from the UK’s Chartered Management Institute and has authored on gendered analysis on military operations, China, the Balkans, security capacity building, and resource efficiency. She also speaks varying degrees of French, German, Serbo-Croat and Mandarin.