Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili
Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on issues of self-governance, geopolitics, and political economy with a geographic focus on Central Eurasia. She is the author of several books including Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press), which received the Best Book Award in Social Sciences by the Central Eurasian Studies Society and Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan (with Ilia Murtazashvili) (Cambridge University Press). Murtazashvili is a nonresident scholar at the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prospect Magazine (UK) named her one of the world’s top global thinkers in 2022. Murtazashvili has advised the USAID, the World Bank, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, the U.S. Department of Defense, the UNDP. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
