Scott Malcomson

Scott Malcomson has worked as an author, reporter, civil-society executive and government official in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North and South America. He is a senior fellow for international security at the New America Foundation and director of special projects at the Strategic Insight Group. As a journalist and the author of five books, he has focused on the real-world fortunes of civilizational organising ideas such as globalisation, the Muslim ummah, international civil society, race, nationalism and cyberspace. Malcomson was foreign editor of the New York Times Magazine and has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Guardian, The World Post and many other publications. He has been an executive at two global NGOs and was a senior official at the United Nations and the US State Department. His fifth book, Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web, was published in 2016.