Newly elected NAFUSA Board of Directors member Scott Schools has recently been
appointed Chief Compliance Officer for OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research and
deployment organization founded in 2015, headquartered in San Francisco. Scott served as the US Attorney for the Northern District of California 2007-2008 and South Carolina February 2001 to November 2001, as well as Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S.Department of Justice from January 2008 to February 2013. Most recently he was employed as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Uber Technologies.

Scott was the keynote speaker at the NAFUSA 2024 Annual Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In a conversation with then NAFUSA president John Richter at the conference’s closing dinner on Friday night, Scott described the importance of the role he held as the DOJ’s senior career official for over five years, a position held for many years prior to that by David Margolis. In that capacity he advised Attorneys General and Deputy Attorneys General on significant DOJ matters with a focus on ethics and professional responsibility.