^#smrgSAHAF Labour & Nationality in Soviet Central Asia -

Nancy Lubin is President of JNA Associates, Inc. -- a research and consulting firm on the former USSR, especially Central Asia and the Caucasus. She has lived, worked and traveled throughout this region since the early 1970s, as an academic researcher; Congressional staffer (1982-89); university professor (Carnegie Mellon University); and consultant to private foundations, international donors/ financial institutions, US government agencies/ contractors, the media, and other private industry ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to smaller non-profit companies. She received her BA, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard University; her PhD from Oxford University; studied at the Universities of Leningrad and Moscow (1974-75); and was one of the first westerners to spend a year conducting doctoral research in Uzbekistan (1978-79). The heart of her work has been navigating corruption, and the informal economic and political systems in these countries. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; serves on the Boards of the Open Society Institute, Central Eurasia Project; the Eurasia Foundation Board of Trustees/ Board of Advisors; and of other organizations; and has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the US Institute of Peace, and the American Foreign Policy Council. Her publications include Labour and Nationality in Soviet Central Asia, (reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and elsewhere); Calming the Ferghana Valley (for the Council on Foreign Relations); Narcotics Interdiction in Afghanistan and Central Asia (Open Society Institute, 2002); various Congressional testimony and reports; and scholarly and popular articles, including cover stories for GEO Magazine and Readers Diges