David Young Miller, a faculty member at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) since 1998 who served in various administrative roles at the school, died Nov. 17, 2020.
He was the founding director of the school's Center for Metropolitan Studies, as well as founding advisor of the Congress of Neighboring Communities (CONNECT), where he spearheaded and championed an award-winning national model of networked approaches to leveraging shared policy and program opportunities and resources between the City of Pittsburgh and more than 35 surrounding municipalities.
Miller served as GSPIA’s interim dean (2006-07) and associate dean (1998-2006) and was co-director of the Center for Public Policy and Management in Skopje, Macedonia (2000-06).