Girard Miller

Girard Miller is one of the nation’s most widely read authorities on public finance and retirement systems. His weekly columns in Governing magazine educate and inform thousands of public finance professionals. He is a senior strategist at the PFM Group working as a retirement plan design and management consultant. In 2008 he was a voting member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Previously, Girard was the president of the Janus mutual funds and was Chief Operating Officer of Janus Capital Group, Inc., a global investment company with $170 billion of assets under management. Prior to that, he was the president and chief executive officer of the ICMA Retirement Corporation for ten years after heading Fidelity Investments’ public funds group. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a past fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.