Amber D. Miller is president of the $13 billion charitable William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which invests in creative thinkers and problem solvers in more than 1,000 grantee organizations working to ensure meaningful opportunities to thrive for people, communities, and the planet. Before joining the foundation, Amber served as dean of the University of Southern California (USC) Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the largest school at USC, where she was responsible for managing a multidisciplinary institution with nearly 2,000 faculty and staff. Previously, she served as the inaugural dean of science at Columbia University, where she enhanced connections across science, engineering, medicine, and other specialties. Amber’s academic research has focused primarily on experimental cosmology. A California native, Amber received her bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and her doctorate in physics from Princeton University.