Scott grew up in
Texas before studying American literature and history at the
University of Texas at Austin. She gained an MBA from the
Cox School of Business at
Southern Methodist University and a PhD in communications from the University of Texas at Austin. Scott's blog,
The Double X Economy, focusses on the global economy of women – as investors, donors, workers and consumers – in both the developed and developing world. She also blogs on gender issues for the
World Economic Forum,
Forbes, and
Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2013 she founded Power Shift, the Oxford Forum for Women in the World Economy, curating annual themed programmes for the forum in Oxford and
Georgetown University until 2016.
Prospect selected Scott as one of the Top 25 Global Thinkers in 2014 and 2015. The book was shortlisted for the 2020
Royal Society Prizes for Science Books and longlisted for the 2020
Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. ==Works==