The United States faces a more serious and diverse threat landscape than any point since 9/11. What’s worse, our enemies are evolving at a fiber optic pace, while the U.S. government is reacting at dial-up speeds. We must dramatically reform how we approach homeland security by taking a global perspective: shape the world around us, or get shaped by it.
Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during the Trump Administration, joins the Mershon Center for this compelling discussion on the future of homeland security.
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Speaker
Miles Taylor is a CNN Contributor and the Co-Founder of the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR), an organization committed to promoting conservative reforms on issues ranging foreign and defense policy to economics.
Miles is President Trump’s former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he oversaw day-to-day operations of the government’s third largest department, including nearly 250,000 employees and a $60 billion annual budget. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and managed engagement with the White House, other federal agencies, and foreign governments. Miles also served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary, advancing efforts to protect the United States against nation-state adversaries, criminal plots, terrorists, and cyber threats.
Miles was previously a top national security aide in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the staff of House Homeland Security Committee, House Appropriations Committee, and earlier in his career in the Office of the Speaker of the House. Miles also worked in the George W. Bush administration in the White House and at Department of Homeland Security.
Miles is co-founder of the Washington Leadership Academy, a four-year high school in Washington, D.C. named one of America’s top 10 “Super Schools” by the XQ Project. He is also a documentary filmmaker, and in 2017 he produced Democracy’s Messengers, a film about the work of young Americans serving on Capitol Hill, featuring narration from the late ABC News journalist Cokie Roberts.
He is currently a senior fellow at the McCrary Center for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Miles received his M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, and his B.A. from Indiana University as a Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B. Wells Scholar. A proud Hoosier, he is a graduate of La Porte High School in La Porte, Indiana, as well as the Congressional Page School in Washington, D.C.
Event Host
The American Foreign and Military Policy research cluster is an initiative of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. The cluster focuses on the study of US foreign relations, US defense policy, and international relations, diplomacy, and war as they affect US foreign policy and military affairs in contemporary and historical contexts. The cluster examines these elements of power from both American and foreign viewpoints in order to understand both the domestic drivers of policy and the impact of other nations on it. The cluster examines foreign and military affairs holistically, along with all elements of power – diplomatic, economic, military, informational, financial, intelligence, cultural, and legal – that have an impact on them.
