J Scott Younger is a recognised leader in infrastructure development across Asia. He has held a range of senior academic, consulting and business-development roles in Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia over the past 35 years. He currently serves as director of Nusantara Infrastructure and as commissioner for the East Bali Poverty Project.

Over the past eight years he has been increasingly involved in the coal industry, particularly with regard to a wide range of supporting infrastructure. He is a director of Prime Pacific Coal and Prime Pacific Gold (Singapore). Mr Younger is also president commissioner of Glendale Partners, a leading infrastructure, natural-resources, renewable-energy and consulting firm based in Jakarta; chairman of the EuroCham working group on infrastructure; and senior vice chairman of the International Business Chamber, with a particular remit to report on infrastructure. He is a current member of the EuroCham board and a former member of the board of the British Chamber of Commerce (1996–2004 and 2010–12). He has served as project manager and consultant on many road and water-sector programmes in Asia funded by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. 

Mr Younger has published many journal and proceedings papers in the field of infrastructure and is a regular speaker at conferences. He is also a regular columnist for the regional business magazine Globe Asia, a writer for Forbes and an honorary research fellow of Glasgow University. He holds degrees in engineering from Glasgow University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hong Kong.