Matt Miller is a senior vice president at Capital Strategy Research, a unit of Capital Group, one of the world's leading investment firms with $1.4 trillion under management (including the American Funds family of mutual funds). Miller's duties include analyzing U.S. policy trends that affect investment decisions and supporting Capital's communication and engagement efforts with a wide range of external audiences.

Miller joined Capital in 2015 after a diverse career as an author, journalist and business consultant. In his public policy work, Miller was a columnist for The Washington Post, the host of public radio's week in review program, "Left, Right & Center," and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love (2003) was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His second book, The Tyranny Of Dead Ideas: Revolutionary Thinking For A New Age of Prosperity (2009) has been called "downright prescient" (Time) and "fascinating" (Washington Post).

Miller was previously a columnist and contributor at Fortune, Time, and The New Republic; he wrote a syndicated column for Tribune Media Services from 1996 to 2004 and served as a guest columnist for the New York Times op-ed page (subbing for Maureen Dowd) in the spring of 2005. Miller's commentary was featured on The Colbert Report and Real Time With Bill Maher, and he served as a frequent guest host on MSNBC.

Miller ran for Congress in California's 33rd Congressional district in 2014, winning the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times.

In his business life, Miller began his career at McKinsey & Company and then served as a senior advisor there from 2004 to 2014, where he served corporate, nonprofit and government clients on issues of strategy, policy, and communications.

Earlier Miller served as Senior Advisor in the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995. From 1991 to 1992 he was a White House Fellow, serving as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

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 serves on the board of directors of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and was appointed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to serve on The Equity and Excellence Commission, which examined inequities in school finance. He speaks often on public policy to diverse audiences, including invited sessions at No. 10 Downing Street, and with official groups in Beijing and Shanghai at the request of the U.S. Department of State (including a talk at the Communist Party's executive training center).

Miller 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. (His junior year was spent at the London School of Economics.) He received his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar and book reviews editor of the Columbia Law Review.

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