Ben Scott (born 14 May, 1977) 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

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(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

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in Washington, D.C., where he did work on the ad tech industry. 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

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where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State

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, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development.

Life

Scott grew up in

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. Scott is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. Scott is a graduate of

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. In 2010 he received his Doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the

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Career

Scott has worked as a legislative telecommunications policy fellow for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and as the Policy Director for

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, a national media reform organization. While at Free Press Ben lead a number of initiatives and was described as a "driving force for '

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.'" While at Free Press, his expertise was often sought by the press and Ben was regularly called on to testify before the

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and

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. In May, 2010 Scott left Free Press to become Policy Advisor for Innovation at the

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. 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. In 2015, Ben Scott was called on to submit an expert report for the German Parliament's official inquiry committee into the Snowden affair. Since 2018 he has served as director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, part of the global philanthropic organization, the Omidyar Group.

Bibliography

Books

* 2015 Ansgar Baums / Martin Schoessler / Ben Scott, editors
Kompendium Industrie 4.0
Berlin (in German) * 2013 Ansgar Baums and Ben Scott, editors.
Kompendium Digitale Standortpolitik
Berlin. (in German) * 2005 Robert W. McChesney, Russell Newman and Ben Scott, editors. ''The Future of Media.'' New York: Seven Stories Press.. * 2004 Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, editors. ''Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism.'' New York: The New Press.

Articles

* 2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet.
New America Foundation publication. *2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet.
New America Foundation publication. *2018: Ben Scott / Stefan Heumann / Phillipe Lorenz.
Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy
Stiftung Neue Vorantwortung publication. *2016: Ben Scott
Collaborative Policy Development: From Think Tank to Civic Enterprise
New America Foundation publication. *2011:

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and Ben Scott. 21st Century Statecraft. NATO Review. * 2006:

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and Ben Scott. Community Internet: Why Should Arts and Culture Funders Care. Grantmakers in the Arts Reader. * 2003: Ben Scott and Sascha Meinrath. Media Reform Explodes onto American Political Scene. Public i. Vol. 3(10).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Ben 1977 births Living people Northwestern University alumni United States Department of State officials University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Media alumni People from Canyon, Texas