James N. Miller

James N. Miller is Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Obama Administration. He came to the Department of Defense from a position as Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) from February 2007 to April 2009. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Combating WMD Panel of DoD’s Threat Reduction Advisory Committee.

At CNAS, he was coauthor, with Shawn Brimley, of a study supported by a number of moderate Democrats, seen as more of a future state than one for the present. was supported by moderate Democrats. It described an immediate drawdwn to 60,000 troops, which Linda Robinson described as a plausible blueprint for a future security mission, "but the three bedrock U.S. security goals the author set out &mdash; preventing al-Qaeda safe haven, regional war, and genocide &mdash; could not be prevented with so few troops."

Previous positions include serving as Senior Vice President (2003-2007) and Vice President (2000-2003) at Hicks and Associates, Inc.; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation Policy (1997-2000); assistant professor at Duke University (1992-1997); and senior professional staff member for the House Armed Services Committee (1988-1992). He has served as an advisor to the Defense Science Board, as senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as senior associate member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

In 2000 he received the Department of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.

Education

 * B.A. degree with honors in economics from Stanford University
 * Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.