EUROPE AND EURASIA REGION
Chemonics International Inc.
Home Office Director
SCOTT N. CARLSON
A lawyer and project manager with more than 16 years of management, legal, and regulatory
reform experience in a diverse range of countries, specializing in government transparency and
accountability issues, judicial reform, the rule of law and transitional justice. Currently manages
the worldwide Rule of Law IQC and the MCC Threshold Program in Albania to combat
corruption in government business services. Excels at designing practical solutions to
international development problems. Extensive experience in post-conflict and transitional
environments, most notably as past director of Central and East European Programs at the
American Bar Association (ABA). Played an instrumental role in the ABA’s establishment of a
judicial and legal professional training institute in Prague (the CEELI Institute). Finalized and
implemented the Judicial Reform Index. Advised on constitutional reform in Democratic
Republic of Congo, Albania, and Iraq.
EDUCATION
L.L.M., international and comparative law, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., 1994.
J.D., University of Georgia, Athens, 1989.
B.A., English, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
2006-present
Director, Europe and Eurasia Region, and Democracy and Governance
Steward, Chemonics International, Washington, D.C. Manages USAID
programs in anticorruption and rule-of-law. Assignments include:
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2005-2006
Project director, Support to Albania’s Millennium Challenge Account
Threshold Country Plan. Oversees implementation of a two-year,
$13.5 million program with three components: fiscal transparency:
attaining reduction/elimination of corruption in tax policy and
administration; transparency in public procurement: attaining
transparency and elimination of corruption in public procurements;
and combating corruption in business entry and registration:
establishment of a national business center.
Project director and senior technical advisor, Rule of Law IQC.
Provides technical and administrative leadership for Chemonics’ Ruleof-Law (ROL) IQC contract. Leads home-office units providing
administrative and technical support to the task orders USAID/Ukraine
Combating Corruption and Strengthening Rule of Law;
USAID/Kazakhstan Judicial Assistance project, the USAID/Russia
Judicial Reform and Partnerships project. Supervises dozens of local
and international staff members in the field and home office,
overseeing recruitment and maintenance operations.
Legal advisor, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations,
New York, New York. Conducted a study of rule of law lessons-learned in
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United Nations Peacekeeping Missions. Completed field visits to a
number of United Nations missions, including Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire,
and Liberia, and developed a guidance manual for rule-of-law officers.
2004-2005
Deputy director for operations, National Center for State Courts,
Arlington, Virginia. Responsible for designing and managing international
legal development projects worldwide with oversight for projects in
Rwanda and Serbia. Supervised recruitment, maintenance, and discipline
of staff in field operations and head quarters, involving numerous local
and international professionals. Designed, implemented, and managed an
invoicing system in Microsoft Access and participated in the
customization of the Deltek Enterprise Management System to support
international development programming.
2004
Consultant, the Republic of Macedonia. Conducted an assessment of the
Republic of Macedonia’s compliance with minority rights, using the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to guide the
analysis. The assessment identified practical measures that could bolster
respect for minority rights and reduce tensions that might lead to conflict
renewal. Co-authored the Practical Guide to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, an accessible handbook for understanding
the nature and scope of human rights set forth in the ICCPR.
2003-2004
Supreme Court fellow, United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.
Worked on special projects with the United States Sentencing
Commission, including the revision of the corporate criminal penalty
guidelines and an analysis of the constitutionality of select PROTECT Act
provisions with potential impact on judicial independence, and conducting
original research and writing. Participated in the Supreme Court Fellows
2003-2004 program.
1999-2003
Director, previously program director, Central and Eastern Europe and
Judicial Reform, ABA-CEELI, Washington, D.C. Designed, established,
and managed international legal reform programs for the American Bar
Association. Supervised more than 80 employees internationally,
published the ABA-CEELI Judicial Reform Index, produced expert
testimony in trial of Slobodan Milosevic, and established the CEELI
Institute in Prague, Czech Republic.
1997-1998
Legal advisor, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE), Tirana, Albania. Designed, established, and managed a program
to assist the Government of Albania with a participatory constitution
drafting process; managed technical assistance in the Constitutional
Referendum, comprising legal technical assistance to the Central Election
Commission and the Ministry of Local Government.
1996
Attorney, Claes & Partners (now Le Boeuf, Lamb, Greene, & McRae),
Brussels, Belgium and Tirana, Albania. Designed, established, and
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managed the firm’s Tirana Office with Studio Legale Tonucci. Provided
legal counsel to the European Union, World Bank, German Company for
Technical Assistance, and private clients. Illustrative activities include:
assisted on the revision of the Albanian tax procedure code, wrote A Study
of the Albanian Judicial System, provided transactional advice, created a
foreign investment guide for Albania, worked on tax and corporate
governance reform emphasizing transparency and accountability, and
assisted in the implementation of a Value-Added Tax (VAT), working
with the IMF.
1989-1995
Various, U.S. Department of Treasury, Tirana, Albania and Washington,
D.C.
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PUBLICATIONS
Resident tax advisor, Tirana, Albania. Assisted International Monetary
Fund and Albanian Ministry of Finance personnel with implementation
of a Value-Added Tax (VAT), including review of regulations and
seminars on the VAT.
Sabbatical. Provided technical legal assistance in Albania and
managed the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Office.
Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Served on Domestic Joint Quality
Council (1992-93) and International Joint Ventures Task Force.
Taught in-house Legal Ethics course and represented U.S. Government
at Tax Court. Researched and drafted legal documents and regulations,
reviewed proposed legislation, and responded to Congressional
inquiries.
Primer for Justice Components in Multidimensional Peace Operations:
Strengthening the Rule of Law (UN, December 2007).
Carlson, Scott. Legal and Judicial Rule of Law Work in Multi-Dimensional
Peacekeeping Operations: Lessons-Learned Study (UN, March 2006).
Carlson, Scott. “A Targeted Analysis of the Implementation of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Republic of
Macedonia,” American Bar Association, Spring 2005.
Carlson, Scott: co-author, The Practical Guide to the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Ardsley, NY: Transnational
Publishing, Fall 2003.
Carlson, Scott: co-author, Albania Chapter, Nations in Transit. Washington,
D.C.: Freedom House, Summer 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Carlson, Scott: co-author, “The Post-Conflict Transitional Administration
of Kosovo and the Lessons-Learned in Efforts to Establish a Judiciary
and Rule of Law,” Michigan Journal of International Law 22: 371, Fall
2001.
Carlson, Scott: co-author, “Political Killings in Kosovo/Kosova,” American
Bar Association, Fall 2000.
Carlson, Scott. “Politics, Public Participation, and the 1998 Albanian
Constitution,” Osteuropa Recht, Winter 1999.
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Carlson, Scott. “Foreign Investment Laws and Foreign Direct Investment in
Developing Countries: Albania’s Experiment,” International Law 29:
577, Fall 1995.
Carlson, Scott. “The Montreal Protocol, Subsidies, and the GATT: A
Needed Reconciliation,” Texas International Law Journal 19: 211, Spring
1994.
Carlson, Scott. “One Class Graduates: Final Regulations Define One Class
of Stock Requirement,” Journal of Southern Corporation Taxation 241,
1993.
Carlson, Scott, co-author, “International Cooperation in Criminal Matters:
Western Europe’s International Approach to International Crime,” Nova
Law Review 15: 551, 1991.
LANGUAGES
Native English, fluent Albanian, proficient French.
PERSONAL
U.S. citizen.