Scott Richard Andersen is NDI’s resident director in Romania. Before joining the Institute in 2006, Scott worked on political and academic outreach initiatives with the European Union, clerked in the field of international business and commercial litigation in Brussels; and undertook legal assignments on the accommodation rights of transnational migrants at the Free Legal Advice Centers in Dublin. Mr. Andersen also assisted the EastWest Institute with gathering testimonials and traveling to more than 20 countries authoring Working in a World In Transformation: Twenty Stories for Twenty Years; served as a legislative aide on rural economic development initiatives and constituent outreach with the Washington State Senate; worked as a program officer for the Soros Foundation in Siberia; and served as a business recruitment and retention specialist at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Scott earned a Juris Doctorate in Comparative and International Law from the University of Washington School of Law, and a Master of Arts in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is a graduate of the European Union’s Comparative Federalism program at the University of Bruxelles Institut d'études européennes. He is fluent in Russian, proficient in German, and speaks intermediate French and Romanian.
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