For the past two decades, Dr. Aaron David Miller served at the U.S. State Department as an advisor to six secretaries of state. There he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Advisor for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. He also served as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. Mr. Miller received his Ph.D. in American Diplomatic and Middle East History from the University of Michigan in 1977 and joined the State Department the following year. His critically-acclaimed book The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace was published by Bantam/Dell in March 2008. His media and speaking appearances include CNN (including "American Morning," "Wolf Blitzer Reports,") "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer," FOX News, "The NBC Nightly News," "CBS Evening News," and the Charlie Rose show on PBS. His articles appeared in newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The International Herald Tribune

Dr. Miller will lecture in Berkeley, Palo Alto and San Francisco.