Scott Paul is Senior Manager of Humanitarian Policy at Oxfam America, where he leads the organization’s advocacy on a number of crises and cross-cutting humanitarian issues. Paul previously he worked for CIVIC, an organization that seeks to make warring parties more responsible to civilians. Paul initiated CIVIC’s work on the conflict in Somalia and directed its Making Amends Campaign.  Paul also served as deputy director, government relations, at Citizens for Global Solutions where he led numerous coalition-based campaigns to promote a vision of US foreign policy centered on cooperation, pragmatism and the rule of law. He has also worked for the clerk of the US House of Representatives and for a number of organizations focusing on human rights, HIV/AIDS and elections in the former Soviet Union.

​Paul graduated from New York University Law School and did his undergraduate work at Columbia University and St. Petersburg State University.