Waller

 

The Board of Directors of the Mississippi Economic Council has selected Scott Waller to serve as president and CEO. Waller, who has been with at MEC for more than 11 years, spent the last eight months as interim president & CEO.

Waller is only the fourth CEO in MEC’’s 69-year history. He previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at MEC, where he refined and deployed a comprehensive advocacy plan by building strong relationships with members of the Mississippi legislature and bolstering involvement among MEC’s membership.

Prior to joining MEC, Waller spent more than 20 years as a newspaper journalist, including four years as business editor of The Clarion-Ledger. He is also the former owner and editor of the Madison County Journal and was a co-owner of Siwel Homes, a residential construction company.

He is a graduate of Mississippi State University and has completed the Institute for Organization Management program, an intensive four-year nonprofit leadership training program conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga.

Waller serves as Chair of Board of the Council of State Chambers’ Policy Center and serves on the council’s board of directors. He is a member the Institute for Organization Management’s National Board of Trustees and the IOM’s Southeast Board of Regents. Waller is also a member of the National Transportation Investment Advocacy Council.

He and his wife Kim live in Madison and are active at St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church. Their son, Shane, and daughter-in-law, Whitney, are both graduates of Mississippi State University and live in Washington, D.C.