Scott London is an independent journalist based in southern California. He's perhaps best known as the host of "Insight & Outlook," a cultural affairs program heard on many National Public Radio stations in the U.S. and on global shortwave during the 1990s.

Scott has spent the better part of two decades learning from frontier thinkers and social innovators — men and women charting new directions in science, education, technology and other fields. He has distilled much of that learning into a series of writings on social entrepreneurship, public innovation, and the power of breakthrough ideas.

He has contributed to many books and published widely in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. He has also authored studies and reports on a range of important issues, including the state of American journalism, current trends in higher education, and the political ramifications of new communications technologies. He's currently at work on a book on the Nobel Peace Prize, to be published in 2009.

Scott devotes much of his time to consulting projects aimed at social innovation and civic renewal. He's worked with many academic, government and nonprofit organizations, including the Kettering Foundation, the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, and the National Issues Forums. He's currently lead consultant on a year-long Harwood Institute initiative.

He also works as a contract photographer and photojournalist. His images have been licensed for advertising and editorial use in books, magazines, and newspapers worldwide.

Raised and educated in Sweden, Scott moved to the United States in 1990. He has a wife and two teenage daughters.