Yale Divinity School-Faculty

David W. Miller

Executive Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Business Ethics

BSBA, Bucknell University
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary

David W. Miller serves as executive director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School and is an assistant professor (adjunct) of business ethics. The mission of the Center is “to promote the practice of faith in all spheres of life through theological research and leadership development.”

Miller also leads the Center's “Ethics and Spirituality in the Workplace” program and teaches business ethics at Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management. His course is entitled “Business Ethics: Succeeding without Selling Your Soul.” He has particular interest in ethics and spirituality in the workplace, moral leadership, and helping companies become faith-friendly. Miller's forthcoming book, God at Work (Oxford University Press, 2006), examines the growth, dynamics, and future of the faith at work movement.

He received his Ph.D. and M.Div. degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). While working on his doctorate, Miller co-founded The Avodah Institute in 1999 and served as its president. Avodah's mission is to help leaders integrate the claims of their faith with the demands of their work.

Miller brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective to the academic world, having also spent 16 years in senior positions in international business and finance. Prior to academia, Miller lived and worked in London for eight years, where he was an equity partner in a private bank specializing in international investment management, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, he was a senior executive and director of the securities services and global custody division of Midland Bank plc (now part of the HSBC Group). He first moved to London as the managing director of the European operations of State Street Bank and Trust, a leading U.S. securities services bank. He began his management career in the U.S., after graduating from Bucknell University in 1979, working for IBM for eight years in a variety of sales and marketing management positions in New Jersey and New England. Miller also speaks German, having lived, studied, and worked in Germany.

Miller serves as an advisor to several corporate CEOs and senior executives on questions pertaining to ethics, values, integrating faith and work, and becoming a faith-friendly company. He is a frequent speaker at gatherings of business leaders, industry associations, academic conferences, and large church programs. His views are often cited in the media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Fortune Magazine, Forbes, NPR, ABC, NBC, and CNN.

Miller finds inspiration in the lives and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Stott. His wife, Karen, is a former lawyer and law school professor. He enjoys being with his nieces, playing tennis, bridge, and tandem cycling. He is active in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)