| Terry Babcock-Lumish | |
| Birthname: | Terry Lumish |
| Birth Date: | 25 March 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Miami, Florida, United States |
| Alma Mater: | Carnegie Mellon University (BS) Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (MPA) Oxford University (DPhil) |
| Occupation: | Professor, Entrepreneur, Policymaker |
| Spouse: | Brian Babcock-Lumish |
| Credits: | 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) |
Terry Babcock-Lumish (born March 25, 1976) is an American professor, entrepreneur, and policymaker. She is the Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.[1]
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.
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.
From 2002-2004, Babcock-Lumish served as an associate fellow and research associate at the Rothermere American Institute.[3]
In 2005, Babcock-Lumish founded Islay Consulting LLC. Islay provides consulting services to include economic, policy, and political analysis.[4]
From 2005-2008, Babcock-Lumish served as a senior research associate at Harvard Law School.[5] From there, she went on to serve as a visiting research associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.[6]
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.[7] In this position, Babcock-Lumish directed the public policy program.
From 2012-2014, Babcock-Lumish served as an assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy.
From 2019–Present, served as Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship foundation.
Babcock-Lumish was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner in 1996.[8] 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.
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.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
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,[12]