Scott Allan

For the last four-and-a-half years Scott Allan has served as the Stat Department's Senior Regional Counterterrorism Advisor for Afghanistan and Pakistan. In that capacity he manages and participates in a wide-range of Pakistan-related interagency, counterterrorism initiatives. These include a range of activities, including "softer" efforts aimed at countering radical rhetoric in South Asia. He has been the lead staffer for interagency delegations to the region and has maintained close contact with a number of government officials, religious and social leaders, NGOs and media in the region.

Prior to his time with S/CT, Scott was a lawyer for the 9/11 Commission where he drafted the South Asia-related chapters and recommendations for the Commission's report. He has also worked as a law clerk at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he prosecuted Bosnian war criminals. He later served as a Special Counsel to the late Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke and spent several years on Wall Street as a corporate lawyer. He attended Georgetown University (class of 1995) and the Duke University School of Law (class of 1999) and has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society. Scott grew up in Annapolis and his father coached the USNA's varsity sailing team in the late 1960s and early 1970s.