Nancy Lubin

Nancy Lubin is President of JNA Associates, Inc., a research and consulting firm on the former USSR, esp. the Caucasus and Central Asia. Since the early 1970s, she has consulted for over 90 private foundations, international donors and financial institutions, US government agencies and contractors, the media, and other private industries, primarily focused on corruption navigating the informal economies there. Prior to JNA, Lubin was an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a Soviet Specialist and Project Director at the US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, US Institute of Peace. She holds a PhD from Oxford University and BA, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard. She studied in Moscow and Leningrad; she was one of the first Westerners to do research in Central Asia for a year at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan (1978-79). She has published widely in scholarly and popular journals, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.