Before joining the ILO, Steven Miller was an assistant to the director of the African Studies Center of Boston University. He began his career with the ILO in 1982 as a chief technical advisor of a $4 million technical cooperation program in Burkina Faso that provided rural employment through labor-based community infrastructure development. Miller joined the ILO headquarters in 1985, where he was responsible for research, training, and evaluation of ILO’s employment-intensive investment programs. He has worked and published in a number of employment policy areas, including urban employment, informal sector, and remuneration policies. In 1998 he was seconded to the United Nations Secretariat in New York to coordinate employment-related outcomes for the U.N. General Assembly’s five-year review of the World Summit for Social Development, which included coauthoring the Secretary-General’s report that was discussed during a Special Session of the assembly in July 2000. Miller was the secretary of the U.N. Secretary-General’s Youth Employment Network (YEN) from 2000 to 2005. YEN is a partnership of the World Bank, the ILO, and the U.N. that was launched by Kofi Annan in the framework of the United Nations Millennium Summit. Since 2005, Miller has been a senior policy advisor for the ILO’s Employment-Intensive Investment Programme. He holds a bachelors degree from Yale University and a masters (political science and economics) from Boston University. He has also carried out research towards a doctorate degree in colonial agricultural policy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.