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Terry Babcock-Lumish

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Terry Babcock-Lumish
Born
Terry Lumish

(1976-03-25) March 25, 1976 (age 48)
Miami, Florida, United States
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University (BS)
Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (MPA)
Oxford University (DPhil)
Occupation(s)Professor, Entrepreneur, Policymaker
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)
SpouseBrian Babcock-Lumish
Websitewww.consultislay.com

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

  • Pricing the Economic Landscape: Global Financial Markets and the Communities and Institutions of Risk Management, ('Political Economies of Landscape'; 2008; ISBN 9781402058493).]

Media appearances

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Babcock-Lumish appeared on NBC's TODAY Show in 2014 in a segment titled Cadets, chefs break down barriers,[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "DisplayBio.aspx".
  2. ^ "Obituary: Robert M. Lumish / Chief of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Mercy Hospital". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  3. ^ "Former Fellows | The Rothermere American Institute". www.rai.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  4. ^ "Terry Babcock-Lumish". www.shesource.org. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  5. ^ "Terry Babcock-Lumish". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  6. ^ "Terry Babcock-Lumish". Revisiting The Great Society: the Role of Government from FDR and LBJ to Today. 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  7. ^ a b "Elmer B. Staats Award | The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation". www.truman.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-12-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "Mexico International Film Festival | Mexico Film Festivals - 2010 Winners". www.mexicofilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  10. ^ Oxford, University of. "Clarendon Fund Scholarships". www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
  11. ^ "Cadets, chefs break down barriers". TODAY.com. 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2015-12-13.