Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a contributing editor at The National Interest magazine.

Prospect Magazine recognized Murtazashvili as one of the world’s top thinkers. At the University of Pittsburgh, she received the Donald Goldstein Professor of the Year Award, Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement, and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service Award.

In the policy world, Murtazashvili served as a democracy and governance officer for USAID in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and worked as a senior researcher for the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul. Other policy work includes service for the World Bank, the US Department of Defense, the United Nations Development Program, UNICEF, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Currently, Murtazashvili is a member of the executive board of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, a board member at the Collins Institute for Abrahamic Heritage, and a member of PONARS Eurasia. Previously, she was a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, served as the president of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, and was an elected board member of the Section for International and Comparative Public Administration of the American Society of Public Administration.