Ms. Jeannine B. Scott is a Global Partnerships Expert and Strategic Advisor.  She brings a wealth of over 40years 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 currently serves as the U.S. Country Manager for OMATAPALO inc., a subsidiary of the OMATAPALO Group, an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm head quartered in Angola, with operations in several African and European countries, and in the U.S.  OMATAPALO manages a diversified portfolio of businesses in the areas of Engineering and Construction, Public Works, Agribusiness, Real Estate, Mining, Fishing and Hotel Management.

Ms. Scott is also 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).  Her previous tenures include:  Senior Advisor to the Co-chair of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA); President of the U.S.–Angola Chamber of Commerce (USACC); Senior Vice President of Africare, which was the oldest and largest African-American NGO that uniquely executed economic development and humanitarian programs across the continent of Africa.  Ms. Scott held U.S. government appointments as Advisor and Alternate (and temporarily Acting) U.S. Executive Director serving the Board of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB).  She held 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.  Currently she is a Sr. Nonresident Fellow at The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. 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 and the African First Ladies Leadership Summits.  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); the Corporate Council on Africa Board; the Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Board; Howard University Law School - World Food Law Institute Advisory Board; Texas Southern University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration Advisory Board; Yale University-Jackson School of Global Affairs; amongst others.  She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of 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 Sorbonne, Institut d'études politiques deParis (“SciencesPo”), Université Paris 1, the Institute of European Studies (France), and the Université de Dakar (Senegal), the National Defense University, and the Institute of Development Studies (UK).  Ms. Scott is fluent in French and knowledgeable of Portuguese.

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