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Steven Riel Miller (born 1957, in Regina, Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian and French United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization futurist and foresight specialist as well as an economist and academic. Miller defined the futures literacy framework and created the UNESCO initiative to pioneer the research, development, and spreading of futures literacy worldwide. Based in Paris, France, Miller has been leading UNESCO Future Literacy's research and development since 2012 - firstly as Head of Foresight at UNESCO's Bureau of Strategic Planning and then as the founder of the Futures Literacy initiative, part of the Anticipation and Foresight specialty of UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Sector.

Key Academic Contributions to Futures Studies
Miller wrote the seminal 2007 academic paper "Futures literacy: A hybrid strategic scenario method", published in issue 39 of the journal Futures, which introduced the definition of the futures literacy concept and framework.

Miller was editor and primary author of the open access book |Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century, published by UNESCO and Routledge in 2018. This book provided a detailed account of the theoretical as well as practical development and application of futures literacy by the UNESCO initiative, including 30+ UNESCO Future Literacy Laboratory research sites in 21 countries worldwide created during 2012-16.

At UNESCO, Miller also leads the development of UNESCO Chairs focussed on futures literacy studies and futures studies. By 2018, such academic chairs had been established at the University of Trento, Italy; University of Turku, Finland; and at the Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia in Nilai, Malaysia.

In 2017, an Africa-wide UNESCO futures literacy research initiative was announced, with the collaboration and support of the OCP Foundation and the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique of Morocco.

Education and Other Career Highlights
Miller was an undergraduate in Combined Political Science and Economics at Carleton University in Ottawa during 1974 to 1978.

With the start of the 1976-7 academic year, Miller, a member of the Student Action Party, began serving as Vice-President External of the Carlton University Students' Association. In October 1976, Miller was elected President of the National Union of Students (Canada).

After attaining his Carleton B.A., Miller studied in the Department of Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto, graduating in 1979.

Miller then studied for his Ph.D. in Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City, USA, focussing on public finance, and political economy, from 1979 to 1982. His Ph.D. thesis was "A Political Economy Portrait of the Canadian Economy from 1926 to 1983".

From 1995 to 2003, Miller was Principal Administrator of the International Futures Programme, an Advisory Unit to the Secretary-General of the OECD. From 2003 to 2004, he was Principal Administrator at the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.

In 2005, Miller founded a foresight consultancy, xperidox, which he operated until 2012.

From 2005 to 2012, Miller was also a faculty member of the Masters of Public Affairs program at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Miller was formerly a member of the boards of the Association of Professional Futurists and the World Futures Studies Federation.

Miller is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce of the United Kingdom.