August  26, 2020

Nancy Lubin

You are invited to join our August 26 Webinar: “A 40 year view of institutional corruption in Central Asia and in US and International Assistance There” with Nancy Lubin, President, JNA Associates, Inc, a research and consulting firm on the former USSR, especially the Caucasus and Central Asia.

This talk will explore the challenges of US and international aid in addressing corruption — and deep-seated ‘institutional corruption’ –  in all sectors in formerly Soviet Central Asia and within the US, European and international assistance communities themselves.  Drawing from Lubin’s four decades of research, consulting and personal experience in this region, we will discuss the nature of ‘corruption’ in this part of the world; why some aid programs succeed; and why far too many assistance efforts have only exacerbated the very corruption they are committed to address and undermined their own objectives —  not only because of the difficulties of working in this part of the world, but because of institutional factors that pervade the foreign assistance community itself.

This is the seventh in our summer series Summer with SFWAF: Hot Weather, Hot Topics. We have been offering two webinars a month normally held on a Wednesday from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm Mountain Time throughout summer 2020 on a variety of current international affairs topics of concern to SFWAF members and friends.

We are using the Zoom Webinar Format for this and our other programs. If you are interested in this program, please email sfwaforum@outlook.com for additional information.

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If you are not a member but interested in membership, please email sfwaforum@outlook.com for additional information.  
Because we are a 501(c)(3) organization, dues and contributions are tax deductible. 

For pricing and reservations, click here: https://sfwaf.org/payment/

The Speaker

Nancy Lubin
Nancy LubinPresident, JNA Associates, Inc.
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 of 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.