Laurel E. Miller

Biography

Laurel Miller is a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, focusing on national security and foreign policy issues. She is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and has been an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown. She was a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on constitutional issues and rule of law development in countries emerging from conflict, and on international justice issues. During previous government service, she was involved in conflict resolution and post-conflict stabilization, including as senior advisor to the U.S. special envoy for the Balkans, senior advisor to the assistant secretary of state for European affairs, and deputy to the ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. Miller was involved in peace negotiations in Macedonia, Kosovo, and Bosnia. She also served as director for western hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council. Miller was an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations; practiced law with the firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and Brussels; and clerked for a federal judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier, she was a graduate fellow in India and worked as a reporter in Japan. Miller received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review.