Scott Royal, President and CEO, Westat

2020 PSC Board Member

Scott Royal President and CEO

BIO

Scott Royal, Ph.D., serves as the President and CEO of Westat. He joined Westat in November 2017 as President, was elected to the Board of Directors in May 2018, and became CEO in 2020. He has both a Ph.D. and an M .P.H. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Royal has a strong background in public health, with a focus on HIV prevention and its impact on disadvantaged communities. Throughout his career, he has conducted a range of research on HIV, led large epidemiologic projects, and built rigorous professional capacities. Over the years, he has transitioned from frontline research to corporate leadership where he excels in bringing talented people together and enhancing how they perform on all dimensions of research work.

In his a lmost 30-year career in the field of government contracting and professional services, Dr. Royal has held technical and management positions at RTI International, Abt Associates, and The Lewin Group. He has also served the community at large on the Board of Directors for Metro Teen AIDS in Washington, DC, and Capital Caring (Hospice in Falls Church, Virginia. He currently serves on the Beebe Medical Foundation Board in Lewes, Delaware.