Dan Ownby

Who is Dan Ownby?

Daniel Gil "Dan" Ownby of Houston is one of 12 elected volunteer members of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Ownby is the youngest Boy Scouts of America member ever elected to the governing body. He served as the Chairman of the 2009 Philmont Conference, and was elected to the World Scout Committee at the 39th World Scout Conference in Brazil in January 2011. His first term on the World Scout Committee expired at the 40th World Scout Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2014, at which time he was re-elected for one additional term, ending in 2017.

Ownby is a board member of the Sam Houston Area Council as well as a committee member of Kandersteg International Scout Centre.