F. Scott Kieff

About

The Honorable F. Scott Kieff is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School, and founder of Kieff Strategies LLC. After nomination by President Obama and unanimous confirmation by the Senate, he served as commissioner of the US International Trade Commission from 2013 to 2017. He also served during the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations as a special government employee in the Senior Executive Service, sitting on advisory panels in the national security defense–intelligence community as well as advising on matters of economics, innovation, and oversight and compliance. He was previously a professor of law and medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. A former law clerk to US Circuit judge Giles S. Rich and a graduate of Penn Law School and MIT, where he focused on molecular biology and microeconomics, he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2012.