Scott Pearson

Scott has been studying economic change in developing countries for more than four decades, and is an internationally renowned specialist on the development of Third World countries. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1961, he joined the Peace Corps and taught for two years in Nigeria. He then earned an M.A. in international relations at Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard. In 1968 Scott began teaching economic development and international trade in the Food Research Institute, Stanford University. Scott retired from teaching in 2002 to begin a new career as a lecturer on expeditions, including recent explorations of Asia, North America, the Arctic, and the Antarctic.

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