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udith Miller, who has had a distinguished career in journalism, is a senior writer at The New York Times and currently writes about national security issues.

She joined the paper in 1977 as a member of the Washington Bureau, where she covered the banking and securities industry, the House and Senate, national politics, foreign affairs – with special emphasis on the Middle East – and nuclear proliferation issues.

In 1983, she became the first woman to be named chief of The Times’s Cairo bureau in Egypt, where she was responsible for covering the Arab world. In 1986, she became the Times’s correspondent in Paris, traveling throughout Europe and North Africa.

In 1987, she returned to Washington to serve as news editor and deputy bureau chief of the Washington bureau. In May 1989, she assumed a new role in New York as co-coordinator of, what was then, a newly created department to enhance the paper’s coverage of the media – radio, television, advertising, and publishing.

In October, 1990, she became the paper’s special correspondent to the Persian Gulf during the war, and after that, The Times’s Sunday Magazine’s special correspondent, writing on many domestic and foreign affairs topics, including the Middle East. Before joining The Times, Ms. Miller was Washington bureau chief of The Progressive magazine, a monthly and the nation’s second oldest journal, based in Wisconsin.

In addition, she was heard regularly on National Public Radio and wrote articles for many publications. Born in New York City, Ms. Miller grew up in Miami and Los Angeles, where she graduated with honors from Hollywood High School. She attended Ohio State University, Barnard College and the Institute of European Studies at the University of Brussels. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in 1972.

She presently serves as a member of the advisory committee of the Woodrow Wilson School and is active in the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Miller has written four books and contributed chapters to three others. She most recently co-authored “Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War,” with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, a riveting account of the evolution of biological weapons, published by Simon & Schuster in 2001.

She also wrote “God Has Ninety-Nine Names, Reporting from a Militant Middle East,” published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, and “One, By One, By One,” a highly praised account of how people in six nations have distorted the memory of the Holocaust, published by Simon & Schuster in 1990. She is also co-author of “Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf,” the first comprehensive account of the Gulf crisis and biography of the man behind it, published by Times Books in 1990.

The book was a best seller, topping The New York Times Best Seller list during the Gulf war. Ms. Miller has appeared as an expert on Middle Eastern and national security affairs on many national television news and public affairs shows including “Sixty Minutes,” “CNN,” ABC’s “Night Line” and “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show” and “The Charlie Rose Show.” She lectures frequently at universities and before public affairs groups on the Middle East, Islam, national security, and terrorism.