Biography

Ms. Jeannine B. Scott is a Global Partnerships Expert and Strategic Advisor.  She brings a wealth of over 35 years of experience and networks to her work and her clients.  The breadth of her experience is expansive and diverse, straddling the fields of international development and humanitarian aid, trade and investment, and international government relations.  Ms. Scott has held senior executive roles, both domestically and globally, with major non-profit organizations, in the multi-lateral world, as well as in the private sector and the US government; and she has extensive knowledge of and expertise in the African continent.

Ms. Scott is Founder & Principal of America to Africa Consulting, LLC, (A2A).  Through her private practice with A2A, Ms. Scott leverages her global partnerships and expertise to provide strategic advice, promote private sector engagement, and broker sound trade and investment linkages between the USA, African and Caribbean countries.  Her range of experiences and relationships has allowed her to work with a variety of partners and serve a diverse clientele ranging from Fortune 500 firms to small & medium enterprises (SMEs) and “local content” companies (LCs).  Ms. Scott serves as Country Manager for Omatapalo, Inc. in the USA, a subsidiary of Omatapalo, an engineering, procurement and construction firm with operations in Angola, and several other African countries and Europe; she is a Senior Advisor to the CEO of Yeleen Enterprises - specifically in her role as co-chair of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA); and she is a Sr. Nonresident Fellow at The Atlantic Council.

Ms. Scott’s previous tenures include:  President of the U.S.–Angola Chamber of Commerce (USACC), the oldest bilateral chamber between the U.S. and an African country; Senior Vice President of Africare, then the oldest and largest African-American NGO that uniquely focused on executing economic development and humanitarian programs across the continent of Africa; Advisor and Alternate U.S. Executive Director to the Board of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), (a political appointment under the Clinton Administration); as well as earlier staff positions with both the AfDB and Africare

As a seasoned international professional, Ms. Scott has been called to serve on a number of high-level working groups, engaging in policy dialog with senior-level officials, providing strategic advice and helping to shape policy positions on US-Africa policy.  Her insights have been provided to multilateral agencies such as UNHCR, the SADC Secretariat, AfDB, as well as think tanks and NGOS including the Center for Global Development, the African First Ladies Leadership Summits, amongst others.  Ms. Scott was selected to serve on the National Steering Committee of African Diaspora for Biden; and she served as Co-Chair of this group’s Fundraising Committee.  She twice served on the Obama Presidential Campaign Africa Policy Advisory Committees.

Ms. Scott serves on a number of boards and councils notably including:  Chairman of the Board of the Constituency for Africa (CFA); Yale University-Jackson School of Global Affairs - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council; Howard University Law School - World Food Law Institute Board Director; Zura Group; the Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Ambassador Andrew J. Young Entrepreneurial Institute,  the Tropics Group Business Chamber amongst others.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Africa Policy Group. 

Ms. Scott holds an A.B. degree from Vassar College in Political Science and Africana Studies and a M.A. in International Relations from Yale University.  She has also studied at the National Defense University, the Institute of Development Studies (UK), The Sorbonne, University of Paris I, the Institute of European Studies (France), and the University of Dakar (Senegal).  Ms. Scott is fluent in French and knowledgeable of Portuguese.