Neile Miller was appointed Director of the Office of Budget on
October 1, 2007. As the Budget Director, Ms. Miller is responsible for
managing the budget formulation, presentation and execution processes in
support of the Department's $24 billion budget, and ensures independent
analytical support to senior Departmental management on all budgetary
matters, including hearing preparation.
Ms. Miller has over 20 years of experience in the field of nuclear
energy and defense policy and budget analysis. Most recently, Ms. Miller
was a senior program examiner in the National Security division of the
White House Office of Management and Budget, where she was responsible
for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration,
and the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction program.
Prior to that, Ms. Miller served in two Associate Director positions
in the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and
Technology--first as Associate Director for Resource Management, and
later as Associate Director for International Nuclear Cooperation.
Her previous Federal service includes four years at OMB as the
program examiner in charge of Department of Energy radioactive waste
management programs and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She also
worked for several years supporting the DOE Environmental Management
program office at the Albuquerque Operations Office (now Service Center),
and spent two years in Paris at the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency serving
as a policy and communications officer. Ms. Miller began her career as
the research assistant to the Congressional Research Service's Senior
Specialist in Nuclear Nonproliferation.
In the private sector, Ms. Miller has worked for Cogema, Inc. as
director of business development for the US federal environmental
sector. She also spent several years as an independent consultant to
clients that included the DOE, Sandia National Laboratory and the
government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Ms. Miller has an undergraduate degree in political science from
Vassar College and a Masters degree in International Affairs from
the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She is fluent
in French and German.
Ms. Miller lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband,
Dr. Werner Lutze, and their two sons, Max and Daniel.
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