American
Chris Miller is an American economic historian and professor of international history at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He studied at Yale and Harvard, where he earned his PhD in history, and he has also been a visiting fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. His early work focused on Russia and the Soviet Union. He wrote The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, Putinomics, and We Shall Be Masters, a study of Russian economic policy under Vladimir Putin. In 2022 he published Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a history of the semiconductor industry and its role in geopolitics. The book won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award and shaped debate about US-China technology rivalry and chip supply chains. Miller also writes for newspapers and magazines and speaks to policymakers and business audiences on technology, trade, and economic strategy.