SCOTT PETERSON

Scott Peterson is vice president for communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute. NEI represents more than 340 domestic and international corporations and organizations involved in nuclear energy and related technologies. Prior to 2001, he served as senior director for NEI’s Communications Division. Peterson directs the Institute’s activities in media relations, advertising, editorial and creative services, public opinion research, coalition development and industry communications.

Peterson has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and many industry publications, and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, CNBC, CSPAN’s Washington Journal, FOX News, National Public Radio and World Business Review. He has presented speeches on energy, environmental and communications issues at policy, business and communications forums.

Before joining NEI, Peterson was director of communications for the American Nuclear Energy Council, a government relations organization for the nuclear energy industry and one of three groups merged in 1994 to form the Nuclear Energy Institute. He also served as a senior media relations representative at Illinois Power and was a reporter and columnist for seven years at newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.