Richard Miles is a co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention and the Cade Prize for Inventivity, which he and his wife established to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship. 

From 2017 to 2021, Miles was a senior fellow and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He currently serves as chairman of the Trinity Forum. 

Miles spent more than 16 years as a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, serving from 1993 to 2009 in both domestic and overseas postings. His assignments included service with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq, on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, and diplomatic postings in Argentina, Germany, and Barbados. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he served as a Latin America policy advisor to Governor Jeb Bush. 

Earlier in his career, Miles served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army’s 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment along the Iron Curtain in Germany and Czechoslovakia, and participated in combat operations during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait and Iraq. 

Miles earned a B.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Washington and an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. A second-generation Mexican American, he is fluent in Spanish and German.