David Miliband

David Miliband is currently the President and Chief Executive of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a New York-based non-profit humanitarian organization. IRC employs 16,000 people worldwide and works in 40 countries where lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster. Miliband has an unusual/unique position as a senior UK politician who has lived in the US for many years. He is plugged into a new administration and has a global view.

From 2007-10, Miliband served as the UK’s foreign secretary, responsible for a global network of diplomats in more than 160 countries. He established a distinctive voice for an internationalist Britain, from the war in Afghanistan to the Irani nuclear program to engagement with the world’s emerging powers.

As Minister for Schools from 2002-04, he was regarded as a leader of reform. As Secretary of State for the Environment, he pioneered the world’s first legally binding emissions reduction bill. As Minister for Communities, he championed the renaissance of Britain’s great cities.

He was also Vice Chairman of Sunderland Football Club until 2013. He has taught at MIT and Stanford University, debating important geopolitical issues. Along with Jose Maria Figueres of Costa Rica, Miliband was Co-Chair of the Global Ocean Commission.

In 2020, Miliband joined a new venture capital firm, Giant Ventures, sitting on the advisory board.

Miliband set up the “Movement for Change,” which trained 10,000 community organizers in the UK to make changes in their own communities. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time" and as an effective and passionate advocate for the world's uprooted and poor people.

He sits on the WHO Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response, and he publishes on global political trends in The Times, Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and Newsweek.