American economist
Terry Babcock-Lumish |
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| Born | Terry Lumish
(1976-03-25) March 25, 1976 (age 48)
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| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University (BS)
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (MPA)
Oxford University (DPhil) |
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| Occupation(s) | Professor, Entrepreneur, Policymaker |
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| Notable credit(s) | Islay Consulting LLC, President & Founder Economic, policy, and political consultancy firm (2005-present)
United States Military Academy, Assistant professor of economics and senior scholarship adviser (2012–2014)
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, Founding director of public policy (2011-2012)
Harry S. Truman Scholarship, winner, (1996) |
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| Spouse | Brian Babcock-Lumish |
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| Website | www.consultislay.com |
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Terry Babcock-Lumish (born March 25, 1976)[citation needed] is an American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker. She is the Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.[1]
Early life
Babcock-Lumish was born in Miami, Florida. Her father, Dr. Robert Lumish, was an infectious disease specialist and Chief of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Mercy Hospital.[2]
Babcock-Lumish grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Upper St. Clair High School. She received a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University. While there, she won a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. She later earned a master's degree in public affairs from Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Oxford, St. John's College.
Career
From 1999-2001, Babcock-Lumish worked for the United States Government as a fellow in the Presidential Management Fellows Program in the President's Council of Economic Advisers.[1] Upon leaving the White House in 2001, she served as a researcher for two books by the Honorable Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore.[1]
From 2002-2004, Babcock-Lumish was an associate fellow and research associate at the Rothermere American Institute.[3]
From 2005-2008, Babcock-Lumish was a senior research associate at Harvard Law School.[4]
From there, she went on to serve as a visiting research associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.[5]
In January 2011, Babcock-Lumish was appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer and the first Newman Director of Public Policy at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.[6] In this position, Babcock-Lumish directed the public policy program.
From 2012-2014, Babcock-Lumish was an assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy.[1]
She is now executive secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship foundation.
Awards
Babcock-Lumish was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner in 1996.[7] She went on to earn the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's Elmer B. Staats Award, the Foundation's highest honor granted to one Truman Scholar annually.[7]
Babcock-Lumish served as a Clarendon Scholarship recipient from 2002-2004 while reading her DPhil at Oxford.
In 2007, Babcock-Lumish received the young alumni award from Carnegie Mellon University.[8]
In 2010, she won the Mexico International Film Festival Silver Palm Award as the consulting producer for the documentary Women on the Edge: The Mexican Immigrant Experience.[9]
The American Swiss Foundation, the National Committee on US-China Relations' Young Leaders Forum, the Council for the US and Italy, and the British-American Project have all recognized Babcock-Lumish as a young leader.[10]
Published works
In this publication, Babcock-Lumish coined the term "trust network sclerosis," describing the phenomenon in which excessive reliance on trustworthiness results in a form of decision-making lock-in.
Babcock-Lumish appeared on NBC's TODAY Show in 2014 in a segment titled Cadets, chefs break down barriers,[11]
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