About Dr. John Brown Miller

Global expert on public infrastructure

Dr. John Brown Miller is a global expert on public infrastructure with an eye on efficiency and value. He has a thirty-five year focus on bringing practical business, legislative and contractual solutions to the world’s burgeoning public infrastructure needs.

Dr. Miller was professor of construction management and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, writing two textbooks in the field of infrastructure delivery and finance. He is an elected fellow of the American Bar Association, its Section of Public Contract Law, and the American College of Construction Lawyers, in which he has served in leadership positions. He is a prolific writer in this space, with more than 100 scholarly articles and case studies, and numerous invited presentations in every corner of the world.

He was a reporter on the American Bar Association’s 2007 Model Code for Public Infrastructure Procurement project (MCPIP), which provides “best practices” in procurement to America’s 90,000 state and local governments. The Code is designed to help officials, vendors, and contractors ensure integrity in infrastructure delivery and finance, while helping taxpayers receive real value for money.The competitive principles in the Code have been adopted by many hundreds of state and local jurisdictions.

Dr. Miller’s approach offers a practical combination of good procurement practices with enterprise risk management (ERM) to produce unique opportunities for massive gains in value for money. This combination creates the flexibility governments, vendors and contractors need to get effective action, at the right time, in the right place, at the right cost – across entire public infrastructure networks.

He is managing member of Ironside Strategies LLC, a consulting firm focused on providing help in bringing practical business, legislative, and contract solutions to pressing public infrastructure needs, and Ironside Law Group LLCproviding project specific legal advice. Dr. Miller and his clients have been involved in some of the largest public infrastructure projects and networks in the world. Additionally, he has consulted for the United Nations on best procurement practices.

Dr. Miller isfounder and president of nonprofit Barchan Foundation, Inc. Barchan Foundation's objectives are to provide a common understanding how public infrastructure projects are being delivered and financed across the world, and to promote "best practices" in transparency, competition, and fairness in procurement of public infrastructure facilities and services.

He received B.S. (Civil Engineering), M.S. (Soil Mechanics), and Ph.D. (Infrastructure Systems) from MIT, and J.D. and L.L.M. (Taxation) degrees from the Boston University School of Law. Dr. Miller was the GOP candidate for Attorney General of Massachusetts in 2014. He resides in Winchester, MA, with his wife Dr. Joan W. Miller. For more information, please visit