Franklin C. Miller

A Principal of The Scowcroft Group, Franklin C. Miller provides clients both strategic and tactical advice on defense, national security, foreign affairs, and intelligence policy. He is an internationally recognized expert on nonproliferation, nuclear deterrence and arms control policy, and defense.

Frank Miller joined The Scowcroft Group in August 2010 after five years as a member of the Cohen Group. He had joined the Cohen Group in March 2005 from the White House, where he had served since January 2001 as a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and as Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff. His White House assignment capped a 31-year career in the U.S. Government, which included two years at the Department of State and twenty-two years serving under seven Secretaries in a series of progressively senior positions in the Department of Defense. During his career, he had unusual influence on the evolution of national deterrence and nuclear targeting policy, on the START 1 and START 2 treaties, and was instrumental in forging critically important new relationships with the British Ministry of Defence. He was deeply involved in improving U.S. capabilities to counter, defend against, and defeat, biological and chemical weapons, in building the basis for U.S. and NATO strategic and tactical missile defense programs, in national reconnaissance and space policy and in submarine operations policy. He also served as the chair of NATO's nuclear policy committee ("the High Level Group") from September 1996 to January 2001 and of NATO's counter-proliferation policy committee ("the Defense Group on Proliferation") from September 1996 to December 1997.

After retiring from government, Mr. Miller remained deeply involved in defense and national security issues. Mr. Miller served for two decades on the U.S. Strategic Command Advisory Group. He also was a member of the Defense Policy Board from 2008-2020. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Life Director of the Atlantic Council of the United States. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also serves on the Board of Directors of Airbus US Space and Defense.

Mr. Miller received his undergraduate degree from Williams College and an MPA from Princeton University. Between college and graduate school, he served in the US Navy as an officer onboard a destroyer and was deployed in both the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

He publishes frequently on national security issues.