Edward W. Scott is an American businessman and philanthropist. Along with Bill Coleman and Alfred Chuang, he founded enterprise software company BEA Systems. BEA Systems, Inc. ...

He was educated at Michigan State University where he received a B.A. and an M.A. in political science. He also holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university in East Lansing, Michigan. ... Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is a popular interdisciplinary degree which combines study from the three eponymous disciplines. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ...

Scott worked for the U.S. government for seventeen years. During the Carter administraton, he served as Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transportation. This article is becoming very long. ... The Department of Transportation (DOT) is the most common name for a government agency in North America devoted to transportation. ...

After leaving government service, Scott entered the technology industry, working for Computer Consoles Inc., Pyramid Technology and Sun Microsystems where he co-founded Sun Federal, which provided services to the U.S. government. Computer Consoles Inc. ... Pyramid Technology was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper-end of the performance range. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

Scott co-founded BEA Systems in 1995, where he was President. He now has no direct role in the management of the firm. BEA Systems, Inc. ...

In 2001, he cofounded the Center for Global Development together with C. Fred Bergsten and Nancy Birdsall. He is currently board chairman at the center. In 2002 he founded the advocacy organisation DATA together with Bill Gates and George Soros. Additionally, Scott is a board member at the Peterson Institute. The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a think tank focused on reducing global poverty and inequality, headquartered in Washington, D.C. CGD was founded in November 2001 by Edward W. Scott, Jr. ... C. Fred Bergsten, (born 1941), is an American economist, author, and political adviser. ... In general, data consist of propositions that reflect reality. ... William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft, the worlds largest software company. ... George Soros (pronounced ) [Shorosh] (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is a American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. ... The Peterson Institute, formerly the Institute for International Economics, is a private, non-profit, and nonpartisan think tank focused on international economics, based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981, in response to a proposal from the German Marshall Fund[1] . The Institutes...

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• Edward W. Scott, Jr. at the Center for Global Development