Scott Oakley is Managing Director of the National Foreign Trade Council Foundation, the research and education affiliate of the National Foreign Trade Council, with a mission to inspire, promote, and encourage international trade and investment.
Scott Oakley previously served as Acting Head of Border Strategy at the United Kingdom’s Cabinet Office, where he led post-Brexit border strategy for goods imports.
As a Senior Policy Advisor in the UK Government, he oversaw campaigns to prepare British exporters for EU exit and the implementation of risk-based border controls on EU imports. He also served as a Senior Analyst for Cross-Whitehall Intelligence and Data Gathering.
More recently, Scott received the McCourt Scholar Award to pursue a Master of Public Policy at Georgetown’s University McCourt School of Public Policy. While pursuing his master’s, he was a Fellow at the National Foreign Trade Council, supporting NFTC’s trade and tax portfolios.
Scott comes from Manchester, England, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford.
