Aaron David Miller is one of the country’s foremost experts on U.S. policy in the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focusing on U.S. foreign policy and host of Carnegie’s premier online program, Carnegie Connects. He has advised secretaries of state of both parties in shaping America’s policy in the region for more than two decades. Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. Miller is a frequent commentator on CNN, NPR and the BBC and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a past resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. Miller is a member of NIF’s International Board and co-chair of NIF’s International Council. He has written five books, including The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.