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Dr.
David W. Miller
David is the Executive Director of the Yale Center for Faith
& Culture at Yale Divinity School, and an Assistant Professor
(Adjunct) of Business Ethics. The mission of the Center is
to promote the practice of faith in all spheres of life through
theological research and leadership development. David also
teaches business ethics at Yale Divinity School and the Yale
School of Management. His current course is called, “Business
Ethics: Succeeding without Selling Your Soul.” He has
particular interest in questions pertaining to ethics and
spirituality in the workplace and moral leadership. David’s
forthcoming book, The Faith at Work Movement, examines the
growth, dynamics, and possible future of the faith in the
workplace movement.
He received his Ph.D. and M.Div. degrees  from
Princeton Theological Seminary and is an ordained minister
in the Presbyterian Church (USA). While doing his doctoral
work, David co-founded The Avodah Institute in 1999 and serves
as its president. Avodah’s mission is to help leaders
integrate the claims of their faith with the demands of their
work.
David brings an unusual “bilingual” perspective
to the academic world, having also spent 16 years in senior
positions in international business and finance. Prior to
academia, David lived and worked in London, England for eight
years, where he was an equity partner in a private bank that
specialized in international investment management, corporate
finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Before that he was
a senior executive and director of the securities services
and global custody division of Midland Bank plc (now part
of the HSBC Group). He first moved to London as the managing
director of the European operations of State Street Bank and
Trust, a leading US securities services bank. He started his
management career in the U.S., after graduating from Bucknell
University in 1979, working for IBM for eight years in a variety
of sales and marketing management positions in New Jersey
and New England. David also speaks German, having lived, studied,
and worked in Germany.
David serves as an advisor to several corporate CEOs and
senior executives on questions pertaining to ethics, values,
and integrating faith and work. He is also a frequent speaker
at gatherings of business leaders, industry associations,
academic conferences, and large church programs. As a recognized
expert in the field of ethics, values, and faith at work he
is often cited in the media, including in the New York Times,
Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Fortune Magazine,
Across the Board, public radio, NBC, and CNN.
David finds inspiration in the lives and writings of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Stott. Married
to Karen, a former lawyer and law school professor, he enjoys
being with his nieces, and playing tennis, bridge, and tandem
bicycling.
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