Islay (pronounced "EYE-lah") derives its name from the southernmost isle in the Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. Though small and remote, this scenic island is a noteworthy economic and cultural driver of the UK economy.

Founder and president Terry Babcock-Lumish has worked in local, state, and Federal government, and the public, private, and independent sectors. She has served as a Senior Research Associate and Wertheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. She currently serves as research associate at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment and associate fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, where she earned her doctoral degree in economic geography. Dr. Babcock-Lumish specializes in helping organizations make complex decisions under high degrees of risk and uncertainty. She has extensive experience in public-private partnering, intergovernmental management and relations, community and economic development, financial decision-making, and catalytic domestic and international grantmaking.

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