Jeannine B. Scott is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. She is also the founder and principal of America to Africa Consulting, LLC. Scott also serves as the US country manager for OMATAPALO, Inc., a subsidiary of the OMATAPALO Group, headquartered in Angola, with operations in Africa and Europe.
Scott previously served as president of the US–Angola Chamber of Commerce, senior vice president of Africare, advisor and alternate US executive director to the board of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), as well as earlier staff positions with both the AfDB and Africare.
Scott is board chairman at the Constituency for Africa. She also serves on the Corporate Council on Africa, Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, Howard University Law School’s Food Law Institute, the Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Texas Southern University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Scott is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Scott holds an AB from Vassar College in political science and Africana studies and a MA in international relations from Yale University.