With a career spanning more than 25 years working in government and politics, Scott Douglas is a veteran lobbyist with experience at the highest levels of federal and state government. Scott has served in both in-house and external government relations roles and knows how to effectively execute grassroots, public relations, and crisis communications tactics as important components of broad-based government relations strategies.

Scott is a senior policy director in Crowell & Moring’s Government Affairs and Health Care groups, where he focuses on assisting clients with legislative and regulatory issues. Scott uses his significant health care public policy experience to assist health care companies; managed care, long-term care, and long-term care pharmacy facilities; trade associations; and other organizations with legislation before the U.S. Congress.

Scott has experience working in highly diverse settings, including Fortune 500 companies and a contract lobbying firm. He has run multistate lobbying operations, working directly with decision-makers and overseeing external lobbyists. Scott directed the state government affairs program for the 47-state operation of a Fortune 400 health care company, monitored developing legislation, and developed and executed lobbying strategies. He was also a principal lobbyist at Capital Link Consultants, a leading Kentucky lobbying firm, and successfully represented clients from the health care, consumer finance, education, manufacturing, retail, insurance, and information technology sectors.

In addition to his government affairs background, Scott worked as the finance director for Sen. Mitch McConnell, the current Senate minority leader. He also served as the Kentucky campaign manager for Bush-Cheney 2000 and as the political director for Sen. Jim Bunning’s 1998 campaign.

Scott is a past president of the Washington Industrial Roundtable, an executive-level organization that meets regularly for off-the-record meetings with members of Congress, executive branch officials, public figures, and private-sector spokespeople to discuss current public policy issues.