Scott Dearborn Colby, MA, PhD, CLU, ChFC

Scott Colby graduated from the University of Kansas in 1966 (Phi Beta Kappa) with a BA in Oriental Languages and Literatures. That year he was awarded a four year Fellow Of The Faculty graduate fellowship to Columbia University in New York City. His Masters Essay (1969) analyzed the growth of rural guerilla military bases as the main centers of military power for the Chinese Communist Party from 1928 to 1934. In 1976 he completed his doctorate submitting the dissertation, The Boxer Crisis as Seen Through The Eyes of Five Chinese Officials. The dissertation presented translations from the narrative accounts, official government documents, and personal diaries of five Chinese officials who witnessed Boxer warfare in the countryside and who participated in government policy debates within the Ch'ing Imperial Court before the Empress Dowager. The Chinese participant-observer accounts described processes of social disruption and change moving through Chinese society in 1899-1900 on the eve of much greater revolutions to come.

Scott left academia in 1978 to begin a second career in investments and insurance. He joined the firm his father started in 1950 in Wichita, Kansas. It operates today as an affiliate of New England Financial of Boston, Massachusetts, and Metropolitan Life of New York. Since 1978 Scott has built his own group of clients while learning the business from the bottom up. Today, in addition to taking care of existing and new clients, he teaches business college courses on the fundamentals of financial planning and serves as an officer or director for business professional associations and the estate planning council in his community. In May 2007 he was elected President of the Kansas board of insurance professionals, now called the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors of Kansas. Scott Colby has served twice as the President of the Wichita Committee On Foreign Relations which he joined in about 1986.