Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin

Nilmini Gunaratne Rubin is an American policy analyst and advocate who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She's asserted that the United States can remain competitive and increase jobs through more foreign trade. When asked at a Techonomy conference about politics in Washington, she replied "democracy is messy, because people we don’t agree with have a vote."
She was previously the Director of Government Relations for the Information Technology Industry Council where she focuses on cybersecurity and cloud computing policy.
Previously, Nilmini Rubin led work on international and development for the economic issues for the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She is listed as an author or co-author of the following United States Senate publications:
* “The International Financial Institutions: A Call for Change”, March 2010.
* “Sri Lanka: Recharting U.S. Strategy After the War”, December 2009.
* “Petroleum and the Poverty Paradox: Assessing U.S. and International Community Efforts to Fight the Resource Curse”, October 2008.
She also served at the White House's National Security Council, United States Department of the Treasury, and at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
She earned both an BA in Economics and Development Studies and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Nilmini married her husband Joel Martin Rubin in September 2003.
She wrote a 2012 oped for the Los Angeles Times that describes her mother being forcibly sterilized in Washington State and discusses the history of eugenics in America.

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