Scott Jacobs
Scott Jacobs is a leading global expert and author with 25 years of experience in regulatory reform and good business environments. He is currently Managing Director of Jacobs and Associates.
He organised and directed the in uential OECD Programme on Regulatory Reform from 1995-2001, where he wrote many of the recommended regulatory practices that are now used as benchmarks worldwide. He has worked with over 75 developing and industrialised countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas in designing and implementing regulatory reform programmes.
His work aims at producing low-cost and low-risk regulatory regimes that support private sector development and good governance. His specialised areas include comparative research on regulation; diagnostics of regulatory barriers to growth and poverty reduction; building national capacities to carry out broad-based reforms; helping governments implement regulatory impact analysis (RIA); simplifying administrative and licensing procedures and other barriers to entry; and reforming business registration. A pioneer in the RIA eld, he has worked on RIA in over 45 developed and developing countries. Scott is currently the lead lecturer in the popular applied RIA courses o ered globally three times a year in Bruges by Jacobs and Associates and the College of Europe. He has authored numerous articles, 22 books on regulatory reform and is cited in international press worldwide.
His work aims at producing low-cost and low-risk regulatory regimes that support private sector development and good governance. His specialised areas include comparative research on regulation; diagnostics of regulatory barriers to growth and poverty reduction; building national capacities to carry out broad-based reforms; helping governments implement regulatory impact analysis (RIA); simplifying administrative and licensing procedures and other barriers to entry; and reforming business registration. A pioneer in the RIA eld, he has worked on RIA in over 45 developed and developing countries. Scott is currently the lead lecturer in the popular applied RIA courses o ered globally three times a year in Bruges by Jacobs and Associates and the College of Europe. He has authored numerous articles, 22 books on regulatory reform and is cited in international press worldwide.