Scott Borgerson
Managing Director, CargoMetrics; former Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance, Council on Foreign Relations
Scott Borgerson is a co-founder and managing director of CargoMetrics. Previously, he was an Arctic and oceans policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former Coast Guard officer, he served as a ship navigator, a patrol boat captain and the founding director of the Coast Guard Academy's Institute for Leadership. He has also taught as an assistant professor at the Coast Guard Academy and as a senior research scholar at Columbia University. His op-eds and articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. He has testified before Congress and appeared on a number of radio and television broadcasts speaking on a range of investment, foreign policy and national security topics. Borgerson is a senior fellow and board member at the Institute for Global Maritime Studies. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a master's degree and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.