Linda Millis

Ms. Millis is the Director, Private Sector Partnerships, Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Most recently she was the Director of the Markle Foundation National Security Task Force. Ms. Millis has nearly three decades of experience with national and homeland security issues, including threat assessment, intelligence analysis, intelligence program management, domestic preparedness for bioterrorism threats, tracking the financial assets of terrorists, and protecting critical infrastructure. Ms. Millis's career spans both the public and private sector, and she has effectively integrated the business community into intelligence and homeland security work.

A veteran of the intelligence community, she has held senior positions at the National Security Agency (NSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Intelligence Community Management Staff, as well as at the White House, where she served on the staff of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the Congressionally-mandated Aspin Brown Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the Intelligence Community. In addition to her public service, Ms. Millis has worked extensively with the business community on homeland security and intelligence issues.
As the Vice President for Policy at Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a non-profit organization, she created an innovative homeland security partnership between business and government in New Jersey which was embraced by the White House as a model for the rest of the nation. Before joining the Markle Foundation, Ms. Millis served as a Principal at Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath, a management consulting firm for which she identified and implemented best business practices for intelligence and military clients.

Ms. Millis is the recipient of many government awards including the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. She is a frequent public speaker and has testified before congressional commissions and appeared on national television. She also teaches in the Biodefense graduate program at George Mason University.

Ms. Millis earned a BA from the University of Maryland and a MA in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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