Dr Adam Scott OBE TD
Biography:
Adam Scott has academic and professional roots in engineering, economics and law. After being called to the Bar in 1972, his specialisation in intellectual property and competition law brought him into electronic communications as a lawyer in ITT and the Post Office. He became corporate planner in the creation and privatisation of British Telecommunications PLC, then headed BT's international affairs and then, until 1994, chaired its apparatus business. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and, since 1994, at the University of St Andrews. His doctoral research has been in an area where economic regulation intersects with psychology and social science.
