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DR. RIEL MILLER
Xperidox: Futures Consulting
Dr. Riel Miller is a specialist in long-run strategic thinking and the design of advanced foresight
processes. For 30 years he has assisted senior decision makers to assess and direct the potential for
socio-economic transformation in both the private and public sectors.
Dr. Miller’s extensive publications address a range of issues, from futures methodology and the design
of scenario processes for strategic decision making to the future of money, research, education, the
internet, the knowledge society, the public sector, etc. He is one of the world’s leading practitioners
of scenario methods and designs cutting edge “hybrid strategic scenarios” processes for a wide range
of international clients.
Dr. Miller started his career as a professional economist in the early 1980s at the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Economics and Statistics Directorate. From the
mid 1980s - 1994 he worked in four different areas of the Ontario Government: the Legislature,
the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Economic
Development and Trade. During this same period he also worked on projects with a number of
OECD directorates, including: the Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs,
the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, and the Territorial Development Service. At the
beginning of 1995 he returned full-time to the OECD as a Principal Administrator in the International
Futures Programme. In 2005, he left the OECD to establish an independent consultancy, Xperidox:
Futures Consulting, Paris.
Dr. Miller’s current and recent client list includes public and private sector organizations in more than
27 countries: Nordic Research Council; Promethean; the National Economic and Social Development
Office, Ireland; Tekes, Finland; the Autonomous University of Mexico; the Office of Harmonization of
the Internal Market, Alicante; the Korean Development Institute, Seoul; Promethean; Europ Assistance;
Cartes Bancaire; Ateliers de la Terre; Gemalto; Philips Design; The Renault Foundation; various DGs
of the EC: Employment, Research, Administration, Brussels; United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization; United Nations Development Program; Scottish Enterprise; Consortium
for the Commercial Promotion of Catalonia; Cisco Systems; SecondaryFutures, New Zealand; Office
of the National Science Advisor, Canada; Policy Research Initiative, Canada; Defence Research and
Development Canada, Canada; La Poste, France; The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies,
Seville, Spain; Ministry of Labour, Finland; Research Council of Norway; Alstom, Government of
Singapore; Government of Oman, etc.
Dr. Miller works closely with his customers to design and implement innovative projects. His work
combines the latest advances in social science and policy. He has extensive experience applying
cutting-edge action research methods to generate solid empirical evidence for creative policy
options in the present. He coaches and facilitates collaborative policy formation and strategic
processes – using the power of collective intelligence to respect the depth of people’s knowledge
as a way to embrace complexity.
Dr. Miller devotes considerable time to teaching and speaking. He has taught courses at
undergraduate, graduate, and professional continuing education levels at institutions around the
world, including: the College of Europe, Bruges; Sciences-Po, Paris; IESE, Barcelona; CNAM, Paris;
Carleton University, Ottawa; etc.
Dr. Miller is currently a member of the Board of the Association of Professional Futurists; a faculty
member at the Masters in Public Affairs, Institut de Sciences Politique (Sciences-Po), Paris, France;
and a Fellow of the World Future Studies Federation. Born in Canada in 1957, he holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York, MA from York University, Toronto
and a BA from Carleton University, Ottawa. Citizen: Canada, France. Dr. Miller resides in Paris. English
is his native language, and he is fluent in French.
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MS. LINDA MILLIS
Director, Private Sector Partnerships, Office of the
Director of National Intelligence
Ms. Linda Millis is the Director, Private Sector Partnerships for the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence. Most recently, she was the Director of the Markle Foundation National
Security Task Force. Ms. Millis has nearly three decades of experience with national and
homeland security issues, including threat assessment, intelligence analysis, intelligence
program management, domestic preparedness for bioterrorism threats, tracking the financial
assets of terrorists, and protecting critical infrastructure. Ms. Millis’s career spans both the
public and private sector, and she has effectively integrated the business community into
intelligence and homeland security work.
A veteran of the intelligence community, Ms. Millis has held senior positions at the National
Security Agency (NSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Intelligence Community
Management Staff, as well as at the White House, where she served on the staff of the
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Congressionally-mandated Aspin
Brown Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the Intelligence Community. In addition
to her public service, Ms. Millis has worked extensively with the business community on
homeland security and intelligence issues.
As the Vice President for Policy at Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nonprofit
organization, Ms. Millis created an innovative homeland security partnership between
business and government in New Jersey which was embraced by the White House as a model
for the rest of the nation. Before joining the Markle Foundation, Ms. Millis served as a Principal
at Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath, a management consulting firm for which she identified and
implemented best business practices for intelligence and military clients.
Ms. Millis is the recipient of many government awards including the National Intelligence
Medal of Achievement. She is a frequent public speaker and has testified before congressional
commissions and appeared on national television. She also teaches in the Bio-Defense
Graduate Program at George Mason University.
Ms. Millis earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland and a Master of Arts in
International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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