Scott Malcomson

Based in New York, SIG's director of special projects, Scott Malcomson, has worked in Africa, Latin America, Europe, Central, and East Asia, the Pacific islands, and the Middle East as a journalist, author, government official, and NGO executive, including senior positions at the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the New York Times, and International Crisis Group. At SIG, he has overseen private intelligence projects in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, Guardian, Quartz, Techonomy, New York Times, Washington Post, Global Times (Beijing), The New Republic, and Russia in Global Affairs. Malcomson has published five books, the most recent being Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web (featured in The Economist). His book One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times notable book of the year. Malcomson has given talks at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua, RAND, Goldman Sachs, Google, Bilderberg, the Center for a New American Security, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Frontline Club (London), and to government agencies. He has been a fellow at New America and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A board member of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, and PEN. He has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (specializing in modern Chinese history) and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.