Bowls New Zealand chief executive Kerry Clark announced the new selection panel yesterday.
The other members of the panel are national coach Dave Edwards as convener, and Colleen Ferrick (Hawkes Bay).
Ferrick won a bronze medal in the four at the Victoria Commonwealth Games in 1994.
"It will be a challenge for myself and and an honour for Bowls Dunedin and my club," Scott said.
"I have been involved with bowls at the international level and know what to expect."
Scott (53), the green keeper and manager at the North East Valley club, has been playing bowls for the last 38 years and was a Bowls Dunedin selector from 2000 to 2005.
His work as a television commentator at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and World Bowls in Christchurch has given him an understanding of the top echelon of New Zealand bowlers.
He has also played a key role in inviting top bowlers to compete at the annual Speight's North East Valley Invitation singles.
Scott was a New Zealand representative from 1985-90 and has won the New Zealand championship singles (1990) and fours (1977).
He has worked extensively as a coach and selector at provincial level.
Bowls New Zealand has ended the old system of separate panels for men's and women's teams.
The new panel will select both.
"We have endorsed the `one team' approach and have been deliberately emphatic about this in the last couple of years.
This is an exten-sion of that approach," Clark said.
The new panel will have its work cut out improving on the record of the separate panels, whose teams won four of a possible eight world titles in Christchurch earlier this year.
