Barnett Richard Rubin (born January 10, 1950[1]) is an American political scientist and a leading expert on Afghanistan and South Asia.
He also received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1977–1978.
Rubin is director of studies and senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) of New York University,[2] where has worked since July 2000.
From April 2009 until October 2013, he was the senior adviser to the special representative of for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the US Department of State.
He was associate professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University from 1990 to 1996.