Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter is Director of Policy and International Engagement at Jigsaw, an Alphabet company, where he drives its international engagement and thought-leadership efforts around such topics as disinformation, online harassment, counter radicalization, and repressive censorship. Scott was among the founding team members of Google Ideas. He remains an adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he founded and directed Project Fikra as the Keston Family Fellow.

Previously, Scott served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Near East Affairs where he helped conceive and implement the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) before being named G-8 Coordinator for the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENA).