Leland Miller

Leland Miller is co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book, the world’s leading data analytics and economic-forecasting firm. China Beige Book operates the largest proprietary data-collection network ever developed to track the Chinese marketplace, predicting every macro turning point in China’s “black box” economy since 2010.

A highly regarded authority on China’s economy and financial system, Miller is a frequent commentator on media outlets including CNBC, Bloomberg TV & Radio, CNN, and FOX Business. Additionally, Miller has served as guest host for two of the financial world’s top morning news shows, CNBC Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance. His work features regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post, among many others.

Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, Leland Miller was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong, where he worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Hardy C. Dillard fellow and editor-in-chief of the International Law Journal; a master’s degree in Chinese History from Oxford University; a BA in European History from Washington & Lee University; and a graduate Chinese language fellowship from Tunghai University (Taiwan). Miller returned to W&L as the Williams School’s Executive-in-Residence in 2015.

Alongside a successful career, Miller is an elected member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and Economic Club of New York, an elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Global Interdependence Center, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council.