Scott Wagner is ALC’s Chief Economist and an expert in EB-5 economic analysis. With degrees in economics from Westmont College and San Diego State University, he has advised USCIS, founded Wagner Consulting Group, and led research on foreign direct investment and EB-5 project impacts nationwide.
Scott is an economist specializing in the EB-5 program. From 2011 to 2013, Scott worked on-site with the USCIS Investor Program division, where he was a team leader for a group of economic and business consultants that modernized and facilitated USCIS’s adjudication of EB-5 investment projects. In 2014, Scott founded Wagner Consulting Group (www.wcgeb5.com), an EB-5 economic advisory firm. Scott’s past work experience includes research positions at San Francisco State University and San Diego State University, and he was a senior business consultant at LECG Corporation. Scott received his bachelor’s degree in economics and business from Westmont College in 2004 and his master’s degree in economics from San Diego State University in 2010. Scott’s master’s thesis investigated trends in Chinese foreign direct investment in the early 2000s.