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Miles Taylor is a national security expert, New York Times best-selling author, and renowned technologist. Miles served in a variety of government posts, including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he oversaw operations of the government’s third largest department, including 250,000 employees and a $60 billion budget. Miles also served as an aide on Capitol Hill, in the White House during the George W. Bush administration, and at the Pentagon. In the private sector, he was the Head of Advanced Technology and Security Strategy at Google, driving policy on issues ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum computing.

Today, Miles works with some of the most innovative startups in the United States focused on frontier technology and U.S. national interests. He is a senior advisor to companies leading in AGI, advanced manufacturing, autonomous systems, defense tech, robotics, space systems, and beyond. Miles co-founded one of the top tech consultancies in Washington, D.C. and is a founding board member of STATION DC — the center of gravity for innovators and policymakers in the nation’s capital.

Miles is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, A Warning (2019) and Blowback (2023); the host of the iHeartRadio podcast The Whistleblowers; and a special contributor for Americast by BBC News. He is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and BBC on issues related to global security and technology policy, and he has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Economist, and more.

Miles serves on the advisory board of an array of civic groups and co-founded a technology-focused high school in the nation’s capital called Washington Leadership Academy, which was named one of America’s top 10 “Super Schools.” He has taught public policy at the University of Pennsylvania, received his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, and attended Indiana University as a Truman Scholar. Miles still dreams of becoming a Ghostbuster.

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