Rebecca Lubot

Rebecca C. Lubot is president and founder of Lubot Strategies. In 2025, her role with client New Jersey Sustainable Business Network expanded from policy and government affairs consultant to executive director. She brings nearly 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, Rebecca 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. Rebecca gained external affairs experience as principal at The Raben Group, and as director at Porzio Governmental Affairs. Rebecca began her career as a White House intern in the Domestic Policy Office of the Vice President, and continued her focus on politics, policy, and government in New Jersey, working on two congressional campaigns serving as legislative aide to State Senator John Girgenti. Rebecca also was a project specialist to U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg. Her policy portfolio included issues such as education; energy and the environment; health, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals; historic preservation; and LGBTQ+ and women’s rights. Rebecca later served as the chief education policy officer with the New Jersey Department of Education, and she also worked in the not-for-profit sector. Rebecca is the former director at the strategic and crisis communications firm CN Communications International, Inc. and served as acting director for state affairs with the Drug Policy Alliance. She oversaw state affairs employees, state offices, lobbyists at the state-level throughout the country, and lobbied state legislators, governors, and other government officials. Rebecca 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, Rebecca has been featured in the Fordham Law Review, Politico Magazine, and Public Seminar, as well as in Insider NJ and other NJ media outlets. Rebecca earned her doctorate in U.S. history from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, a master’s of science degree in the theory and history of international relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree 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.