The Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is an internationally recognized expert on self-governance, security, political economy, and public sector reform, with a focus on Eurasia and South Asia. Named one of the world’s top thinkers by Prospect Magazine, she has authored several acclaimed books with Cambridge University Press, including Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan and Land, the State, and War.