Speaker:   Ken Miller

Time:       10:00am October 12, 2014 (Sunday)

Venue:      Lecture Hall, CAU Main Building (Fourth floor)

About the speaker:

Mr. Miller is a Senior Advisor with Teneo Holdings. Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Miller was the President & CEO of Ken Miller Capital, llc. (“KMC”), a closely held merchant banking firm with headquarters in New York’s Rockefeller Center and affiliates in China and Europe. KMC provides strategic financial advice to clients and occasionally invests in transactions with an international dimension.

Mr. Miller has served successively as Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston. With each firm he acted as financial advisor to wealthy individuals and a number of the world’s largest corporations. Mr. Miller has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Viacom, Inc., Intelsat Corporation, Kinder Care Learning Centers, CNA Surety, and, now, Loews Corporation (NYSE: “L”), the company which controls Diamond Offshore Corporation (NYSE: “DO”), CNA Financial Corporation (NYSE: “CNA”), Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, l.p. (NYSE: “BWP” and which is also active in the gas exploration business through HighMount Exploration & Production, llc. as well as the hotel business through Loews Hotels.

Mr. Miller is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Board member of the Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Asian Cultural Council. In addition, Mr. Miller acts as advisor to the US State Department through its Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and likewise as senior advisor to Contour Venture Partners, a venture capital fund he helped create whose purpose is investing in early stage East Coast businesses.

Mr. Miller received his B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan (1964), M.A. from Yale University (1965 – Chinese Studies), and J.D. from Harvard University (1969). Academic honors include: Phi Beta Kappa, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and Yale University Fellowship. Publications include articles on China, venture capital, economic development, international relations, and the merger market in Foreign Affairs, Time Magazine, The Harvard Journal of Legislation, The Business Lawyer, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The New Republic, The Deal, The Nation, and Fortune magazine. Mr. Miller speaks French and Mandarin Chinese.