Neile Miller was appointed Director of the Office of Budget on October 1, 2007. As the Department's Budget Director, Ms. Miller is responsible for managing the continuous processes of formulating, defending, and executing the Department's $27 billion annual budget.

Ms. Miller has over 20 years of experience in the fields of nuclear energy, defense policy, and budget analysis. Prior to becoming Budget Director, Ms. Miller served as a senior program examiner in the National Security Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where she was responsible for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction program. Ms. Miller also served in two Associate Director positions in the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy - first as Associate Director for Resource Management, and later as Associate Director for International Nuclear Cooperation.

Ms. Miller has spent the majority of her career in the public sector, including an earlier tour at OMB, as the examiner for DOE's radioactive waste management programs and for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She also worked for several years supporting DOE's Environmental Management program office in Albuquerque, NM and spent two years in Paris at the OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency serving as a policy and communications officer. Ms. Miller got her start on the Hill at the Congressional Research Service working on nuclear nonproliferation issues.

In the private sector, Ms. Miller worked for Cogema, Inc. and as a consultant, with clients that included DOE, Sandia National Laboratory, and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Ms. Miller earned her undergraduate degree in political science from Vassar College and her Masters degree in International Affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She is fluent in French and German.

Ms. Miller lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband,
Dr. Werner Lutze, and their two sons, Max and Daniel.