Scott has over 25 years of experience helping organizations achieve their ethics and compliance goals. He has worked across many highly-scrutinized industries, including on-the-ground work in over 30 countries. He is a Principal with Compliance Systems Legal Group, a boutique law firm focused exclusively on corporate compliance, ethics and governance. Previously, he was a Principal with the Forensic practice of KPMG LLP where he served as global chair and U.S. partner-in-charge of the firm’s ethics and compliance services. Scott began his career at the Ethics Resource Center, an influential non-profit organization that helped pioneer the field of business ethics and a predecessor to what is now the Ethics & Compliance Initiative.The results of Scott’s evidence-based thought leadership in the field have been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, CNN and dozens of other business, government and academic venues around the world. He is the lead author three national benchmarking studies examining the nature, prevalence and root causes of corporate fraud and misconduct in the U.S., along with the impact of ethics and compliance programs on employee perceptions and behaviors. He is also co-author of “Measuring the Effectiveness of Compliance and Ethics Programs” in Compliance Programs and the Corporate Sentencing Guidelines (a leading legal interpretive treatise on preventing corporate criminal and civil liability under U.S. law).Scott has also helped shape public policy on corporate governance and responsibility. He was selected by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to provide expert testimony on amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, which is the baseline framework for compliance and ethics programs in the U.S. and internationally. He was later appointed to an independent advisory group tasked with issuing recommendations to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on weighing compliance and ethics programs in enforcement outcomes and served as one of the lead authors of the group’s report. Scott received his M.B.A. from the Cornell University Johnson School of Management and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.