Member, Delphi Global Board of Advisors

Chris Miller's research focuses on Russian foreign policy, politics, and economics; Russia and Ukraine; Russian-European relations; and Eurasia. He also focuses on semiconductors and the geopolitics of technology. His latest book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (Scribner, 2022) reveals the geopolitical history of the computer chip. It is a New York Times bestseller and a winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award and won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. It was featured on many “Best of 2022” book lists, including in the New Yorker and the Economist.

Dr. Miller is professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Before joining Fletcher, Dr. Miller did research at the Hoover Institution and Brookings Institution. Earlier he spent time in Russia at the Carnegie Moscow Center and the well-known New Economic School in Moscow.

In addition to Chip War, Dr. Miller’s books include We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to Asia from Peter the Great to Putin (Harvard University Press, 2021), Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (University of North Carolina Press, 2016).

Dr. Miller’s work has also been published in scholarly publications such as History of Political Economy, the International History Review, and the Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. In the popular press, his commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Moscow Times, and South China Morning Post, among others.

He has an MA and PhD in history from Yale University and a BA in history from Harvard University.