CEO and Founder
Rebecca C. Lubot, Ph.D., M.Sc. is CEO and founder of Lubot Strategies. She brings 20 years of experience at the international, federal, and state levels in education, energy and renewables, the environment, historic preservation, and several other issue areas. Working at the intersection of policy and politics, Dr. Lubot is skilled at strategizing, coalition-building, and garnering support from both sides of the aisle to create opportunities for her clients. Leaning into her academic background, she applies the appropriate lessons of the past when advising decision-makers, crafting policy, and putting policy into practice.
Dr. Lubot began her career as a White House intern in the Domestic Policy Office of the Vice President, where she focused on policy and speechwriting. She continued her focus on politics, policy, and government in New Jersey, where she worked on two congressional campaigns and was a legislative aide to State Senator John Girgenti. Dr. Lubot also was a project specialist to U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg. She then served as the chief education policy officer with the New Jersey Department of Education, a role created for her by the Governor’s office. While there, she managed relationships throughout the state legislature, the Governor’s office, the U.S. Congress, statewide education organizations, and with lobbyists and other stakeholders.
In addition to these government roles, Dr. Lubot has worked in the not-for-profit sector. She gained significant experience during her tenure as a director at the strategic and crisis communications firm CN Communications International, Inc., where she was responsible for the executive management of a nonprofit overseeing the budget, advisory board, staff, scholars, volunteers, communications, press, social media, sponsorships, grants, fundraising, and event and conference planning that brought together thought leaders in government, academia, and industry. Dr. Lubot was previously the acting director for state affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance, where she managed strategy, program planning, and implementation for both the 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4). She oversaw state affairs employees, state offices, lobbyists at the state-level throughout the country, and lobbied state legislators, governors, and other government officials.
Before establishing her own company, Dr. Lubot gained external affairs experience at two firms: as principal at a nationwide public policy and strategic communications firm, and as director at a law firm subsidiary focused on state-level lobbying and business development.
During her career, Dr. Lubot taught for a decade in the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University-Newark and taught American Government as part of a philanthropic venture for the Modern States Education Alliance. Additionally, she has a strong track record of published work – having been featured in the Fordham Law Review, Politico Magazine, and Public Seminar and as a columnist in Insider NJ. She is the author of Keeping a Finger on the Button: Presidential Continuity and the Nuclear Age.
Dr. Lubot earned her Ph.D. in U.S. history from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, an M.Sc. in the theory and history of international relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in political science from Boston University. She obtained an executive education certificate for completing the program “Climate Change and Energy: Policymaking for the Long Term” from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a public leadership certificate from the University of San Francisco. Dr. Lubot is a visiting associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
“Historians have to make a special effort and be unabashed about connecting historical knowledge and understanding to contemporary strategic and operational problems.” ~H.R. McMaster
