Miller, Earl Robert, 1958-

<p>Earl R. Miller was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on November 13, 2018. Ambassador Miller served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana from 2014 – 2018. Ambassador Miller, a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, joined the Department of State in 1987. He served as U.S. Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa, and at U.S. embassies in India, Iraq, Indonesia, Malaysia, and El Salvador.</p>

<p>Ambassador Miller is honored to have the opportunity to serve in Bangladesh, one of the world’s great development success stories, a vital nation of promise and opportunity poised to play an even larger role on the regional and global stage, and a strong and valued partner with the United States.</p>

<p>Ambassador Miller is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. government honors including the Department of State’s Award for Heroism, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Shield of Bravery. Ambassador Miller speaks French, Spanish and Indonesian.</p>

<p>Earl Robert Miller (born 1958) is an American diplomat. He serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh.</p>

<p>Miller graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in 1981.</p>

<p>Miller served as a United States Marine Corps officer where served on active duty until 1984 and in the reserves until 1992 where he took part in the Persian Gulf War. He joined the United States Department of State in 1987 where he initially worked as a desk officer in the agency's Southern Africa section. He then joined the Diplomatic Security Service as a special agent in Miami, San Francisco, and assistant regional security officer in El Salvador. In 1995, Miller became the regional security officer (RSO) for the U.S. embassy in Gaborone, Botswana. He served in this capacity in a number of countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Iraq, and India. While posted in Malaysia, Miller took part in the investigation of an ambush in eastern Indonesia that saw two U.S. schoolteachers murdered. He was the Consul General of the United States to South Africa in Johannesburg from 2011 to 2014.</p>

<p>Starting December 18, 2014, Miller served as the United States Ambassador to Botswana. Miller was awarded the Award for Heroism from the USDS and the Shield of Bravery from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He is fluent in Indonesian, French, and Spanish.</p>

<p>In July 2018, Miller was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh.</p>

<p>During the 2018 Bangladesh election violence he expressed his concern and played a crucial role in restoring peace and end violence.</p>

<p>Miller was previously married to Ana Miller, originally an El Salvadoran national. They have two sons, Alexander and Andrew.</p>

<p>On July 29, 2014, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Earl Robert Miller, a career Foreign Service officer, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Botswana. It would be the first ambassadorial post for Miller. Botswana hosts the U.S. Air Force, and the United States is the leading purchaser of Botswana’s most important export: polished diamonds.</p>

<p>The son of Robert James Miller and Wanda Miller, Miller attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a B.A. in journalism in 1981. He went into the U.S. Marine Corps after graduation, serving on active duty until 1984. Miller then worked as a supervisor at Arantek, a Santa Clara, California, electronics company until 1987. He continued serving in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1992, doing a tour during the first Gulf War.</p>

<p>He then went into the Foreign Service, focusing on diplomatic security. Some of his early positions were Southern Africa desk officer for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), a DSS special agent in Miami, assistant regional security officer in El Salvador and a DSS special agent in San Francisco.</p>

<p>In 1995, Miller began his first tour in Botswana as a regional security officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy in Gaborone. He served there three years until he was brought back to the United States as the assistant special agent in charge for the DSS in Boston.</p>

<p>Miller went overseas again in 2000 as RSO at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2003 he took on a similar post in Jakarta, Indonesia. While there, he helped investigate an August 31, 2002, terrorist ambush in Papua province that killed two U.S. schoolteachers and wounded eight other U.S. citizens, an investigation that lasted almost four years and culminated in the arrest of 12 terrorists.</p>

<p>In 2007, Miller was sent to Baghdad as RSO, leaving his wife Ana and their two sons, Andrew and Alexander, behind in Jakarta. He was assigned to the embassy in New Delhi, India, the following year, serving there until 2011.</p>

<p>In 2011, Miller was named consul general at the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he served until his nomination to the Botswana post.</p>

<p>Miller speaks Indonesian, Spanish and French.</p>