Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She serves as a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a distinguished scholar of peace and international order at the Institute for Humane Studies, and is a contributing editor at National Interest magazine. She has been recognized by Prospect Magazine as one of the world's top thinkers.
She is the author of several books, including Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press). She has conducted policy research for USAID, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, and UNDP, among others. Currently, she is a member of the executive board of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, a board member at the Collins Institute for Abrahamic Heritage, and a member of PONARS Eurasia.
