About
Nancy Lubin is President, JNA Associates, Inc, a research and consulting firm on the former USSR, especially the Caucasus/ Central Asia. She has consulted for over 80 private foundations, international donors & financial institutions, US government agencies/ contractors, the media, and other private industry ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to small non-profits Her cross-sectoral work, largely focused on corruption and navigating these informal economic/political systems, includes designing, negotiating, implementing & evaluating projects/ joint ventures on the ground; conducting political risk assessments, survey research & other analyses; consulting for ABC News and PBS documentaries; and advising corporations, donors, & legal counsel in the US, Europe and Japan.
Prior to JNA, Lubin was an associate professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Soviet specialist and project director, US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment; and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center (1990-91), US Institute of Peace (1992-93), and elsewhere. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was Director/ Principal Author of a CFR project chaired by Sen. Sam Nunn; has served on the Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors of the Eurasia Foundation and other boards; and was Senior Consultant for International Relations and Engagement, CityDance. She holds a PhD from Oxford University; BA, Magna Cum Laude, Harvard; studied in Moscow and Leningrad; and was one of the first Westerners to research in Central Asia for a year, at Tashkent University, Uzbekistan (1978/79). She has been to the region countless times since.