Mary Scott Nabers

Mary Scott Nabers is president and CEO of Strategic Partnerships, Inc. (SPI), an Austin, Texas-based consulting firm that has been facilitating partnerships between public officials and the private sector since 1995, drawing on the knowledge and experience of its team of experts in government affairs, business development, procurement consulting, and communications. She served from 1992 to 1994 as a Texas State Railroad Commissioner, overseeing an agency that regulated the state's $65 billion...See more

Mary Scott Nabers is president and CEO of Strategic Partnerships, Inc. (SPI), an Austin, Texas-based consulting firm that has been facilitating partnerships between public officials and the private sector since 1995, drawing on the knowledge and experience of its team of experts in government affairs, business development, procurement consulting, and communications. She served from 1992 to 1994 as a Texas State Railroad Commissioner, overseeing an agency that regulated the state's $65 billion energy and transportation complexes. Before that she served for eight years as the commissioner representing the business community on the Texas Employment Commission where she founded the Texas Business Council. She earned her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. During her decade in state government, Nabers wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column, hosted a weekly radio program, and published a monthly business magaine with a circulation of 160,000. She currently publishes Texas Government Insider and a national publication, Government Contracting Pipeline. Nabers has represented Texas on the National Petroleum Council, the National Coal Council, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact, among other organizations She has been a regular speaker at government and industry events for the past 25 years. Her first book, Collaboration Nation, published in 2012, introduced readers to the developing market for infrastructure joint ventures. Inside The Infrastructure Revolution explores how these joint ventures, called public-private partnerships, have evolved into increasingly sophisticated vehicles for improving our public services and rebuilding the public assets that are essential to our nation's prosperity. See less