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Cindy Farkus

Assistant Administrator for Global Strategies

Cindy Farkus became TSA's assistant administrator for Global Strategies in July 2008, after serving as the deputy assistant administrator from December 2007. Farkus proactively works with foreign governments and commercial overseas operations to increase international transportation security. She oversees the agency's international industry representatives, aviation security experts and transportation security administration representatives (known as TSARs) ensuring representation at U.S. embassies and consulates around the globe and meeting the agency's regulatory and inspection responsibilities overseas.

Farkus is a 29-year veteran of the National Security Agency (NSA), where she guided and directed new NSA organizations to meet their new responsibilities and challenges. She served as the chief of staff of an NSA operations center in San Antonio; as an executive assistant to the director of NSA; and as a special U.S. liaison officer in Ottawa. From 2005 until her move to TSA, she served as assistant deputy director for Analysis and Production of NSA. In this role, she led a worldwide enterprise providing products and services to military, national and policy-level decision makers.

She served four years in the U.S. Air Force, including an assignment to NSA as a Russian linguist/analyst.

Farkus is a graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County with a bachelor's degree in economics and certificates in accounting and finance. She has completed leadership and change-management courses with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kellogg School of Management and the Center for Creative Leadership.