For the American author (1967-2008), see Ellen Sue Miller

Ellen Sue Miller

Ellen Miller was an American fiction writer. She was born and raised in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York, though lived in New York's East Village for the last 20 years of her life....

Ellen Miller is currently an Executive Fellow at the London Business School and an independent consultant with a portfolio of board positions. Her areas of interest include diversity, career transition, leadership and management. She was involved in setting up the Centre for Women in Business at London Business School, she advises the Women in Business Club and serves on the Sloan Women’s Fellowship Review Panel. Her board positions include the Advisory Committee for Management Education at INSEAD, the International Advisory Board of SDA Bocconi, the Development Board of the Bodleian Library of Oxford University and the Higher Education Funding Council of England’s Committee on Employability and Skills. Ellen spent 25 years in investment banking, most recently as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...

 and was responsible for graduate recruitment, academic relations and training and development. She helped establish the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

The Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business is based at London Business School and was established as a joint partnership between London Business School and Lehman Brothers, the investment bank....

 with Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and former Chair of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. She also served as Director of the National Economic Council...

 at the London Business School

London Business School

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 and is a member of its Advisory Committee.

Career notes

Ellen Miller was in the investment banking

Investment banking

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 industry for almost 25 years and has been based in London

London

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 since 1988. She joined Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...

 in 1991 and has held a number of senior positions across several divisions during her tenure. Key positions include:

• Chief Administrative Officer
  Chief administrative officer
  A chief administrative officer is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive officer. In some companies,...
  
  Fixed Income Division
• Member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee for the European Fixed Income Division (1998-2000), responsible for managing cost, infrastructure, budget and strategy,
• Head of European Graduate Recruitment and Development (2003-2007) with responsibility for recruiting, training and developing all graduate and post-graduate programme hires for the Firm in Europe.