Scott Paul is the Director of Sustainability at Taylor Guitars, a truly distinctive role within the musical instrument manufacturing industry. In this capacity, he represents the company in various policy forums at both national and international levels. Scott oversees Taylor Guitars’ global sustainability initiatives, which include the award-winning Ebony Project in Cameroon. This project has successfully planted over 40,000 ebony trees and has also led to the creation of original peer-reviewed scientific research.

Before joining Taylor Guitars, the majority of Scott’s career was spent as a forest policy specialist and activist, including 14 years at Greenpeace. He has worked for the White House Office on Environmental Policy and participated regularly in the UN forest policy dialogue since 1995. He has served on multiple boards of directors, including the Forest Stewardship Council. He currently serves as the Board Chair at Tree San Diego. His work has taken him to the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Southeast Asia, the Canadian boreal, Alaska, and Russia. He is also the first person in over 100 years to be arrested for Sailormongering.