Girard Miller
Author and Columnist
Girard Miller is a seasoned expert investor and retired corporate executive, now active as an angel investor in the Southern California venture capital marketplace. Having begun his career serving local governments in New Jersey and Michigan, Girard spent 30 years in the institutional investment industry, including senior executive positions at Fidelity Investments, ICMA-RC (Mission Square), and Janus mutual funds. He served on the Governmental Accounting Standards board and was Director of Technical Services at GFOA, where he is now one of 12 honorary life members. Girard has provided funding for the GFOA’s public finance scholarship programs for 20 consecutive years.
Girard is a prolific author. He has been a regular financial columnist for Governing Finance since 2007. He authored Enlightened Public Finance in 2019, and Investing Public Funds in 1986 and 1998. GFOA published a dozen of his books on public finance topics when he served on staff there in the 1980s.
A CFA charterholder since 1986, Girard has been qualified previously as a Sarbanes-Oxley financial expert and as a federal court expert witness on pension finance and investments. He is an MPA graduate of the Maxwell School of Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and a MA Economics graduate of Wayne State University with a BA degree from the University of Washington, Seattle.