Nancy Lubin

Nancy Lubin is president of JNA Associates, Inc., a research and consulting firm focusing on the former USSR, especially the Caucasus and Central Asia. Since the early 1970s, she has consulted for nearly a hundred private foundations, international donors, and financial institutions, U.S. government agencies and contractors, the media, and other private industries, primarily on navigating corruption and the informal economies in the region. Prior to her role at JNA, Lubin was an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a Soviet specialist and project director at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, U.S. Institute of Peace. She holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard. She studied in Moscow and Leningrad and was one of the first Westerners to do research in Central Asia, for a year at Tashkent State University in Uzbekistan (1978-79). She has published widely in scholarly and popular journals and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.