Bio

Scott London is a California-based journalist and author. His work explores art, culture, community, education, politics and the media. He has published widely in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals and contributed to more than twenty books. His website has been online since 1995.

Scott has authored reports, monographs, and white papers on important public issues like climate change, immigration reform, the troubled state of American journalism, and the democratic potential of new communication technologies. He is co-editor of the most recent edition of the Nobel Lectures in Peace (World Scientific) and contributing editor of Connecting Leaders (Egon Zehnder).

His career got its start in broadcast journalism. He hosted Insight and Outlook, a program of ideas heard on NPR stations across the United States. He has also worked with CBS Radio, American Public Media, CBC Radio and other news outlets as well as hosted and produced several standalone public radio series and podcasts.

As a consultant, Scott works with organizations committed to social innovation, democracy-building, public art and creative placemaking. He is a longtime associate of the Kettering Foundation. He has also worked with the National Issues Forums, the Harwood Institute, Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Egon Zehnder, IMG, the Norwegian Nobel Institute and other organizations.

In addition to his journalism and consulting work, Scott is an award-winning photographer. His book of photographs, Burning Man: Art on Fire (with Jennifer Raiser and Sidney Erthal), originally published in 2014, will appear in a revised and expanded edition in July 2023. He has a separate site for his photography at scottlondon.com

Scott was born in Washington D.C. At the age of five, his family moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he was raised and educated. He returned to the U.S. in his mid-20s and eventually landed on the west coast. He lives in southern California.