Miles Baker

Background

About Miles Baker

Miles Baker has 20+ years of experience in government relations, public policy, strategic communications, and business development in Alaska. He is an expert at helping organizations navigate his home state, where he has served in leadership roles in the executive, legislative and congressional branches of government, and managed complex policy initiatives through a range of public and legislative processes. Miles was a senior policy advisor to Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy. He served as Legislative Director, responsible for managing the administration's legislative and policy agenda, and as Infrastructure Investment Coordinator leading Alaska’s implementation of the $1.2 trillion federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Prior to joining the Governor’s Office, he led government relations for the University of Alaska, managing federal, state, and local affairs. He was VP External Affairs & Government Relations for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, State Director for U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski and a policy advisor in her Washington D.C office. He spent a decade with the Alaska Legislature as senior budget and appropriations staff for the Senate Finance Committee and as Chief of Staff to Senator Bert Stedman. Before returning to Alaska in 2004, Miles was an entertainment executive in Los Angeles, a Six-Sigma Black Belt at NBC Entertainment, National Director of Sales and Marketing at Sony-BMG Music and held senior roles in their classical and jazz division. He began his music career working in sales, marketing, and artist development at Island Records and Arista Records. Miles has been an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Alaska Anchorage, College of Business and Public Policy. He is currently a research partner with the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) at UAF’s International Arctic Research Center, a National Science Foundation funded research collaboration between climate scientists, Indigenous knowledge experts, and policy makers working to better understand the drivers and consequences of environmental change in the Arctic. Miles is a former U.S. Marine Corps Captain, holds a B.S. in Ocean Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.