Miles Taylor (B.A. ’12, Political Science, IMP: International Security Studies) is a national security and tech policy expert in Washington, D.C. Taylor served as chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and later as the head of advanced technology and security strategy at Google. He worked previously as an advisor in the George W. Bush administration, on Capitol Hill, as a CNN contributor, and as the cofounder of a D.C.-based charter school and multiple democracy-reform groups. Taylor is the author of two New York Times bestsellers—A Warning (2019) and Blowback(2023)—and is the host of the iHeartRadio podcast “The Whistleblowers.” He’s also a special contributor for Americastby BBC News. As a Marshall Scholar, he received his M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford University.