Sonia E. Miller, J.D., M.B.A., M.S.Ed.
Principal, S.E. Miller Law Firm
President, Converging Technologies Bar Association
An attorney and principal of S.E. MILLER LAW FIRM, Ms. Miller's boutique law firm represents, advises, and consults industry, individuals, companies, organizations, and government on the legal, ethical, policy, regulatory and legislative issues related to emerging and converging technologies. She is the owner and director of SciTechEngine, the legal and business consulting division of S.E. MILLER LAW FIRM; MISC - Miller International Seminars & Conferences, the executive training and development division of S.E. MILLER LAW FIRM and SciTechEngine; as well as founder and global president of the Converging Technologies Bar Association. Since 2003, she has been a columnist for the New York Law Journal authoring articles on the legal and regulatory implications of emerging and converging technologies. Until recently, she was an adjunct professor in the Executive MBA Program of the Institute for Technology & Enterprise at Polytechnic University, teaching the first university-level business class in the world on "Managing Converging Technologies: Integrating Bits, Atoms, Neurons, and Genes."
Ms. Miller served on the National Materials Advisory Board's Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative, in accord with the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003, contributing to the publication and release of A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. She is a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the Subcommittee on International Law & Intellectual Property for Committee E56 on Nanotechnology at ASTM International. In addition to being a Senior Fellow for the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College, she serves on the Advisory Panel for the Center on Nanotechnology and Society for The Institute on Biotechnology and Human Futures at the Illinois Institute of Technology - Kent Law School in Chicago. Ms. Miller is a member of the editorial board of the new journal on The Ethics of Nanotechnology to be published by Springer in 2007; a contributor to the Intellectual Property Law Dictionary, published by Law Journal Press, and serves on its Editorial Board; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal. A worldwide solicited speaker and author on the legal and ethical issues pertaining to emerging and converging technologies, Ms. Miller frequently divides her time between New York and Washington, D.C.