K. Scott Hubli is the director of governance programs at NDI. He previously served as a senior advisor with NDI's executive office, and has directed the Institute's governance programs once before, from 2000 to 2006. As the director of NDI's governance programs, Mr. Hubli provides technical support to the Institute’s legislative strengthening, public integrity, rule of law and local governance programs worldwide. During his tenure, he has conducted assessment or training missions in more than 25 countries, including several joint parliamentary assessments with USAID. He has been an advocate for greater donor coordination on parliamentary development, as well as for the development of international minimum standards for democratic parliaments.

While at NDI, he conducted the first comprehensive review of Sweden's parliamentary development portfolio. He has played a leading role in facilitating international consensus on normative standards for democratic parliaments, participating in the expert working group advising the International Parliamentary Union on its book, Parliament and Democracy in the 21st Century: A Guide to Good Practice and supporting the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures.

From 2006 to 2007, he served as the lead parliamentary development advisor in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy. In this capacity, he provided policy and technical support to UNDP’s parliamentary development programs worldwide; he also directly managed an $8-million global program for parliamentary strengthening. He represented the UNDP in numerous international conferences relating to parliamentary development, including a major donor conference on parliamentary strengthening jointly organized among DFID, UNDP and the World Bank Institute. While at UNDP, he was asked to present evidence at the House of Commons in 2007, along with co-panelist then-DFID Secretary of State Hillary Benn, in support of an Africa All-Party Parliamentary Group inquiry on parliamentary strengthening.

Before joining NDI in 2000, Mr. Hubli served, from 1999 to 2000, as the senior technical advisor with Associates in Rural Development, Inc. under a USAID-funded contract to assist the Palestinian Legislative Council. The program included numerous activities to strengthen the PLC's policy and legal drafting capacities, as well as the provision of training to members on targeted institutional reform issues. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Hubli served as a nonpartisan legislative attorney and administrator with the Legislative Reference Bureau at the State of Wisconsin Legislature.

He has consulted for The Asia Foundation, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Initiative, AECOM International Development, Associates in Rural Development, Management Systems International and Checchi & Company Consulting. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Hubli was an associate with the New York law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton.

He earned his juris doctor degree with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School and holds a master's of public policy and administration from the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs.

Selected writings from Mr. Hubli:

• Getting Convergence Right [2], Journal of Democracy, October 2010
• Strengthening Legislative Capacity and Practices in a Democratic Structure [3], speech, May 13, 2004