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Dr. Nancy Lubin is President of JNA Associates, Inc. a research and consulting firm on the former USSR, especially the Caucasus and Central Asia - and Senior Fellow for Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council. She has lived, worked and traveled throughout this region for over three decades, as a university professor, Congressional staffer, corporate consultant, and advisor to the media, foundations, and international donor and policymaking communities. Her research covers the full range of socio-economic, political, corruption, youth, security, narcotics, and other issues in this region.

Besides extensive consulting for industry and government agencies, Dr. Lubin has also worked as director of an Open Society Institute project on narcotics trafficking in Central Asia. She has served as Director and Principal author of the Council on Foreign Relations Project on the Ferghana Valley, directing a working group to examine issues of conflict prevention in Central Asia. She served as the director of a three year project on aid to the NIS, and as a consultant to a subsequent ABC News TV production. Prior to holding these positions, Dr. Lubin was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Project Director for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.

She received her Ph.D. from Oxford University; her BA, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard University; studied at the Universities of Moscow and Leningrad and was one of the first Westerners to conduct doctoral research in Soviet Central Asia where she worked for one year at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan. She is the author of many monographs, books and articles including Labour and Nationality in Soviet Central Asia: An Uneasy Compromise. Dr. Lubin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Eurasia Foundation; the Board of Advisors of the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute and volunteers as Co-Chair of the Maryland Schools Committee for Harvard University. She continues to work with high schools in the U.S. and Central Asia and the Caucasus to establish video-links for directed, joint projects.