Michael W. Miller

Michael W. Miller is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. His work focuses on international development, global health, and global health security policy. He has held policy positions in the White House and the Senate, and is also an adjunct associate professor at the Duke Global Health Institute.

Mr. Miller served in the George W. Bush administration as director for Africa at the National Security Council, in the Office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict at the Department of Defense, as deputy assistant administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and as a senior adviser for international affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

At USAID, he initiated and led major internal reforms of the malaria program and led the design and launch of the President’s Malaria Initiative. He served on the interagency policy and governance team for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and was the Bush administration’s lead witness for hearings in both the House and the Senate. 

Mr. Miller spent eight years as senior staff in the Senate, most recently as Republican policy director at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Earlier in his career, he was a senior legislative assistant and directed the Subcommittee on African Affairs. He authored legislation on global health and African affairs.

Mr. Miller began his career at the International Republican Institute, where he focused on sub-Saharan Africa. He received a BA with honors in geography from the University of Tennessee and an MA from the University of South Carolina, specializing in political geography and geopolitical theory.