Terry Babcock-Lumish

Terry
Babcock-Lumish

Terry is President of Islay Consulting LLC and research faculty at the Rothermere American Institute, the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, and the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. Her research interests involve decision-making in financial innovation at the intersection of science, technology, and society, with implications for private and social entrepreneurship alike. She has worked in local, state, and federal government, most recently in the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Upon leaving the White House in 2001, Terry served as a researcher for two books by former Vice President and Mrs. Gore.

In 2006, she was named one of southern Arizona’s 40 Under 40 emerging leaders by the Tucson Business Edge, and in 2007, she was named a Young Leader by the American Swiss Foundation and selected for the Recent Alumni Award by her alma mater Carnegie Mellon. Terry completed her MPA in environmental and technology policy at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and earned her DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Truman and Clarendon Scholar.