Scott E. Pedowitz joined the Arlington community in 2008. Along with his service on Bridges’ Board of Directors since 2022, he serves on the board of the Clarendon Alliance, which he led from 2018-2021. Scott is currently serving as vice chair of the Arlington County Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission, and he has been a member of Arlington’s Economic Development Commission, Complete Count Committee for the 2020 Census, and Complete Vaccination Committee to help Arlingtonians receive their COVID-19 vaccines. He previously served in leadership of the Clarendon Courthouse Civic Association and Arlington Committee of 100 (now Advance Arlington), and graduated from the Leadership Center for Arlington’s young professionals program in 2014 and Leadership Arlington Program in 2020.

Professionally, Scott works as Director of Government Affairs for Virginia for the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington (AOBA). In this role, Scott represents the organization and its members before the local governing bodies across Northern Virginia and at the Virginia General Assembly and regulatory entities in Richmond. Prior to AOBA, Scott worked as Government Affairs Director at the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. Scott began his career in economic analysis and research on Wall Street. He worked in several consulting roles and served as Campaign Manager for Arlington County Board member Libby Garvey’s 2016 re-election campaign.

Scott first came to the Washington metropolitan area as an undergraduate at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he received a BS in Foreign Service concentrating in international economics. He also studied at the London School of Economics and holds an MSc in economics from University College London.