Matt Miller

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Matt Miller is a senior fellow at American Progress; a contributing editor at 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," public radio’s popular political week-in-review program (named by iTunes as one of its best podcasts of 2007). Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was published by Public Affairs in 2003, and was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. In its cover review, the Washington Post 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." His next book, The Tyranny Of Dead Ideas, will be published by Henry Holt/Times Books in January 2009. Miller previously wrote a nationally syndicated column for Tribune Media Services; he served as a guest columnist for the New York Times op-ed page in May/June 2005.

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 staff work for presidential decision making 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, Miller was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and also served as an executive for a national chain of women's clothing stores.

Miller, 46, 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”). His wife, Jody Miller, is the founder and CEO of The Business Talent Group. They live with their 11-year-old daughter in Los Angeles. You can visit his website at http://www.mattmilleronline.com.

Books by Matt Miller:

The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love

Email: mmiller /@\ americanprogress.org