[2] She is a senior fellow[3] with the center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program[4] at the Brookings Institution,[5] a Washington-based thinktank.
[3][7] In 2007 Felbab-Brown worked as assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
In 2012 and 2013 she was guest lecturer at the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth.
From March 2012 until July 2013 she also was on the advisory board of the Modernizing Drug Law Enforcement Initiative.
Since June 2013 she has been a member of the Economics of International Drug Strategy expert group which is organized by the London School of Economist's IDEAS.