Matt Miller

Senior Fellow

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Matt Miller is a senior fellow at American Progress; 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. 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 previously wrote a nationally syndicated column for Tribune Media Services, and has served as a guest columnist for The New York Times op-ed page.

Earlier in his career, Miller held senior posts in both government and business. Miller served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the White House 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 a 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, 44, 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. Books by Matthew Miller:

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