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Matt Miller is an author, columnist, radio host and consultant whose work focuses on agenda-setting ideas and creative problem-solving in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. In his public policy work, Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (the newly launched think tank led by John Podesta, former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton); a monthly columnist for Fortune; and an award-winning contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and other national magazines. Miller is also the host of "Left, Right & Center," a political week-in-review program aired on public radio stations across the country. Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was published by PublicAffairs in fall 2003, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. The book recently appeared in paperback. In its cover review, the Washington Post's Sunday Book World called Two Percent "a welcome return to political thinking on a big canvas agenda;" the Wall Street Journal called it a "small marvel of a book." Miller comments frequently on television, and also served in May 2005 as a guest columnist for the New York Times op-ed page. In his business life, Miller is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, where he advises on strategic communications, on projects in the Firm's public sector, health care and nonprofit practices, and to the McKinsey Global Institute, the Firm's in-house economics think-tank. Miller also consults to corporate, nonprofit and government organizations on issues of strategy, policy and communications, with an emphasis on agenda-setting projects in the education, health care and economic sectors. Previously, Miller held senior posts in both government and business. Miller served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995, where his duties including managing the staffwork for presidential decisionmaking on the budget, and leading management studies both for OMB and the White House, which led to the most sweeping changes at OMB in two decades. From 1991 to 1992 he was a White House Fellow, serving as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to his government service, Mr. Miller did an earlier stint with McKinsey, where from 1989 to 1991 he managed strategy and organization assignments for media and retail companies. From 1986 to 1988 he was a senior vice president with Petrie Stores Corporation, which operated a national chain of women's clothing stores. Mr. Miller, 43, was born in New York City and raised in Rye Town, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut. He received his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1983. (His junior year was spent at the London School of Economics.) He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1986, where he was a James Kent Scholar and book reviews editor of the Columbia Law Review. Miller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Screen Actors Guild (thanks to a cameo appearance in the thriller, The Siege.) He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
Winter 2005
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