Margaret Scott Rauch
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration


Margaret Scott works as a freelance journalist, currently focusing on the role of Islam in Indonesian politics. She has been writing for The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Before that she spent several years working in Tokyo as a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. Margaret also lived and worked in Hong Kong as the cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. She has been a reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, the Courier-Post in Camden, New Jersey and KTCA Public Television in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Margaret Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University.











Areas of Expertise

  • Economics
  • International Development
  • Politics