Carolyn Miles

Carolyn Miles is currently a Professor of Practice and Special Advisor to the Dean at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. She teaches sustainability and CEO leadership and is driving several diversity programs at Darden to increase the number of women and diverse students coming to Darden and entering management. Prior to Darden she taught a course on humanitarianism at Maxwell School of International Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also a member of the Sustainability Council at Bayer AG, advising the Board on sustainability matters and a member of the Board at Bucknell University.

Carolyn served as Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children, an organization that gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Serving over 150M children worldwide, Save the Children is committed to driving down the numbers of preventable deaths of children under 5, ensuring every child gets a high-quality basic education and protecting all children from harm.

Miles joined the U.S. organization in 1998, was COO from 2004-2011, and became President and CEO in September 2011, retiring in January 2020. Under her senior leadership, the organization more than doubled the number of children it reached with nutrition, health, education and other programs. Resources were over $830M in 2019. Miles' signature issues include women and girls' equity, hunger, and ending preventable child deaths.

Prior to Save the Children, she worked in the private sector in Hong Kong for American Express and as an entrepreneur. While in Asia, she confronted the deprivation of the region's children, which motivated her to dedicate her life to their welfare.

In addition to her current service on the Bucknell Board, she served for 12 years on the Darden Foundation Board, as the Co-Chair of the US Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) and Chair of InterAction, the largest coalition of US-based NGOs. In 2015, Miles was named one of the 50 World's Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine and inducted into the CT Women's Hall of Fame. In 2017 she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center at the University of Virginia. In 2019, Miles received the Jonathan M. Daniels Humanitarian Award from Virginia Military Institute. Miles has 3 children and lives in Charlottesville, VA and Fairfield, CT.