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Allan James Miller (Dr.)
Dr. Allan James Miller was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 17, 1960. His father, Hans Miller, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and his mother, Mary (née Kipin, of Russian extract), was born in Toronto. Research by a member of the Kipin family showed that Miller's maternal grandmother may have had Scandinavian origins, raised in a part of White Russia actually settled by the Vikings.

After graduating high school in Toronto, Dr. Miller attended Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University) in Toronto to study civil engineering. However, after one year of study, Miller applied to and was accepted by the University of Toronto to study his passion at the time, history and languages. After studying both full-time and part-time over a period of seven years, Miller graduated from the University of Toronto in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours.

After spending a considerable amount of time travelling Europe after graduation and mixing this with various contract positions, Miller joined the Toronto Police Service in 1991 as a Financial Analyst. By 1994, Miller was chosen to be part of a special unit of the Service known as the Program Review Unit, an auditing team that comprised of uniformed police members to perform operational audits in order to enhance the Service's efficiency and effectiveness. As the only civilian (non-uniformed) member of the unit, the team performed a host of reviews whose studies and recommendations were submitted directly to the Chief of Police and reviewed by the Toronto Police Services Board, the city's civilian overseer of the police service.

In 1997 Miller took sabbatical leave to study at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in Makati, Metro Manila, the Philippines. AIM, also known as the "Harvard of the East', is a premiere business school offering management-level and degree programs for corporate leaders in the region. The school was set up as a joint venture of a number of institutions of higher learning including Harvard University in the United States.  In 1997 Miller grauduated with a Master's Degree in Development Management from AIM and moved back to Canada in 1998 after spending some time in the Philippines.

Rather than returning to the Toronto Police Service, Miller applied to and was accepted by the Calgary Police Service as a corporate planner after a telephone interview. After a little under a year of service, and due to a difference in research style with a manager in his department, Miller decided to leave Calgary and pursue his interest to work in Asia. The feeling that Asia had more exciting opportunities for living and working than that offered in Canada made Miller open up the possibility of working for the Singapore Police.

However, in 1999, Miller met his future wife in London and decided to make the move to Malaysia to be with her. Miller moved to Kuala Lumpur in 2000 and took a brief position with a British executive search firm in May 2000. Within the month, Miller applied to a famous global investigation firm based out of the United States (Pinkerton) and was hired as Assistant Managing Director shortly thereafter.

On January 6, 2001, Miller married his partner in the famous historic port town of Melaka (Malacca). By this time, Miller had begun his studies to gain a doctorate in business administration from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

By 2002, Miller became Managing Director of Pinkerton, but by late 2003 Pinkerton USA decided to close a number of its Asian offices including the one in Malaysia. This forced Miller to quickly open up a new firm, Kirk Consulting Services Sdn Bhd (private limited), named after his son Kirk who was born on September 28, 2003). However, Miller ultimately made the switch to A.J. Miller Consulting Services Sdn Bhd to capitalize on his name with a number of his well-known clients.

In 2007 Miller divorced his wife and gained joint custody over his son Kirk. Miller has expanded his business to offer management consulting, investigation, and a number of corporate services to his list of local and overseas clients and is operating from a private premises in Kuala Lumpur.

In 2008, Miller graduated from the University of Southern Queensland with a Doctorate in Business Administration. Dr. Miller is also an amateur guitarist and drummer.