Professor Graham Miller is the Rodrigo Guimarães Chair of Sustainable Business and Academic Director for the Westmont Institute for Tourism and Hospitality at Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal.
His research is focused on the drivers to create greater sustainability across society, with a particular emphasis on the travel and tourism sector. Graham is the former Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Surrey, UK with university level responsibility for sustainability and employability. Graham was also Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2021 he was appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK to recognise his lifetime contribution towards the development of the social sciences.
Graham is the former chair of the Considerate Group, a company formed to promote sustainable practice in the hotel industry through the analysis of sustainability data. Prof. Miller was co-editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, the leading academic journal dedicated to research around promoting sustainability of the tourism industry, and sustainability through the tourism industry.
From 2014-2019 Graham was the lead judge for the World Travel and Tourism Council's Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. These global awards recognize the best examples of sustainability in the Travel and Tourism industry annually. Graham was also an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for the Future of Sustainable Tourism. This group seeks to provide imaginative and bold solutions to the global challenges facing society, and in particular how travel and tourism intersect with these challenges.