Miles Taylor
Miles Taylor is a national security expert, 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.
In 2020, Miles revealed himself as "Anonymous," the writer behind a New York Times’ op-ed titled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration," a scathing description of how unfit Donald Trump was as president. The op-ed went viral and garnered massive attention. In its aftermath, Miles wrote the bestseller “A Warning” and has for extended periods lived with security detail. In 2023, he followed up with the book "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge”.
He is 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.
Today, Miles advises some of the most innovative companies in the United States focused on frontier technologies and U.S. national interests. He is co-founder and managing partner of the strategy firm Washington Office and co-founder of The Future U.S., a nonpartisan group that advises U.S. policymakers on the biggest developments in emerging technology.
Miles also serves on the advisory board of more than a dozen tech companies and 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 University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and attended Indiana University as a Truman Scholar. Miles still dreams of becoming a Ghostbuster.
