Terry Babcock-Lumish

Babcock-Lumish grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Upper St. Clair High School. She received a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.^[2] 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.^[3]

Her father, Dr. Robert Lumish, was an infectious disease specialist and Chief of Infectious Diseases at UPMC Mercy Hospital.^[4]

From 1999 to 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 to 2004, Babcock-Lumish was an associate fellow and research associate at the Rothermere American Institute.^[5]

From 2005 to 2008, Babcock-Lumish was a senior research associate at Harvard Law School.^[6] From there, she went on to serve as a visiting research associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.^[7]

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.^[8] In this position, Babcock-Lumish directed the public policy program.

From 2012 to 2014, Babcock-Lumish was an assistant professor of economics at the United States Military Academy.^[1]

In 2019, Babcock-Lumish was named the first female Executive Secretary of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.^[9]

Babcock-Lumish was named a Harry S. Truman Scholarship winner in 1996.^[10] 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.^[10]

Babcock-Lumish served as a Clarendon Scholarship recipient from 2002 to 2004 while reading her DPhil at Oxford.^[11]

In 2007, Babcock-Lumish received the young alumni award from Carnegie Mellon University.^[12]

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.^[13]

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.^[14]

• "Trust Network Sclerosis: The Hazard of Trust in Innovation Investment Communities", Journal of Financial Transformation, Vol. 29, pp. 163–172; 2009.

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).]