Ben Scott

Ben Scott Ben Scott is director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, a part of the global philanthropic organization, The Omidyar Group. He is also on the management board of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) in Berlin, an independent technology policy think tank. He has been a part of the leadership at the SNV since 2014, and before that was a fellow there. Previously, Scott was Senior Advisor at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he did work on the ad tech industry. "Ben Scott". New America Foundation. Retrieved 30 December 2018 . During the 2016 presidential campaign, he was the coordinator of the Tech & Innovation Policy Advisory Group for Hillary Clinton. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development.

Since 2018 he has served as director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, part of the global philanthropic organization, the Omidyar Group.

In 2015, Ben Scott was called on to submit an expert report for the German Parliament's official inquiry committee into the Snowden affair.

In May, 2010 Scott left Free Press to become Policy Advisor for Innovation at the U.S. State Department. He was part of a small team of advisors to the Secretary of State and has been described as a key player working towards 21st Century Statecraft.

Scott grew up in Canyon, Texas. Scott is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. Scott is a graduate of Northwestern University. In 2010 he received his Doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.