Debra Miller Glass worked for more than 30 years in Washington, D.C. She is keenly interested in the current attempt by the Trump administration to make radical changes to the global order, to U.S. trade policy, and to fiscal policy. She received an A.B. in political science from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D from Harvard University, has been on the Columbia University School of international and Public Affairs and the George Mason University Schar School of Public Policy faculties, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In Washington, she directed the bipartisan Strengthening of America commission on the U.S. economy chaired by sitting U.S. Senators (Sam Nunn, D-GA) and Pete Domenici, R-NM). Miller-Glass also worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce on U.S-European trade and led an interagency team that assessed European regulations and directives that could have an impact on U.S. exporters. She created an outreach program to U.S. trade associations to represent their concerns on the multilateral level.
Miller-Glass was a senior fellow in international business and economic policy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), the Washington, D.C. think tank. She directed their domestic policy issues program. Its focus was on fiscal policy, tax reform, and U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.
Miller-Glass has also worked at the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. While a student at Berkeley, she was a director of the Cal in the Capital internship program. She has consulted for, among others, the World Bank, the National Science Foundation, the United Nations Association, the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, and the New America Foundation.
