Executive Committee

Dr. Scott E. Miller

Scott E. Miller is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), and has an active research program applying DNA barcodes to the systematics and ecology of moths. He is Senior Program Officer in the Office of the Under Secretary for Science of the Smithsonian Institution, and Curator of Entomology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has published over 145 research publications in systematics, biogeography, and ecology. At the Smithsonian he has previously served as Associate Director for Science at the National Zoological Park, and Chairman of the Departments of Entomology and Systematic Biology in National Museum of Natural History. Before coming to the Smithsonian, he led the Natural Science Department and Hawaii Biological Survey at Bishop Museum (Hawaii) and the Biodiversity and Conservation Programme at International Centre of Insect Ecology and Physiology (Kenya).

He is committed to applying biodiversity information from biodiversity collections and systematics research to conservation and sustainable development, has participated in major reviews of biodiversity related to conservation planning, and catalyzed an Integrated Conservation Development Project in Kenya. He co-edited the books "Papua New Guinea Biological Diversity Country Study," "The origin and evolution of Pacific island biotas, New Guinea to Eastern Polynesia: Patterns and processes" and "Arthropods of tropical forests: Spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy."

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