LELAND R. MILLER
Leland R. Miller is Managing Director and Senior Counsel for Avascent International, and is based in New York. He worked previously as a capital markets attorney for a major international law firm in both New York and Hong Kong, as well as in-house counsel for a global investment bank, where he oversaw a deal team operating on three continents.
Mr. Miller has been a guest on media programs including the BBC’s Newshour and Geo TV and serves regularly as a panelist at research centers such as the Heritage Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. His writings have appeared in such publications as Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Washington Post and Far Eastern Economic Review.
At the University of Virginia’s School of Law, Mr. Miller was Hardy Cross Dillard fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Journal of International Law, while also serving as Research Fellow for the US-China Economic & Security Review Commission, where he reported to the US Congress on developments in China’s energy and financial sectors. He received his BA in European History from Washington & Lee University, his masters degree in Chinese History from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College) and was a graduate Chinese language fellow at Tunghai University in Taiwan.
In 2004, Mr. Miller received the Gerald Segal Fellowship Prize in Asian Security, awarded annually to a single individual worldwide by the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and in 2006-08 was named an American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Fellow, a position from which he oversaw the organization’s review of the Chinese banking and securities sectors.
Mr. Miller is currently a Fellow in International Economics with the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, as well as a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations.