Sam Millner is a Freelance Business and Policy Consultant and a Law Student at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, with a concentration in international law. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Columbia University, where he graduated with honors and received the Senior French Prize for his research on racial biopolitics and epidemics. His core competencies include policy writing and analysis, business development, and intercultural communication, with a focus on the Europe, Middle East, and North Africa (EMEA) region. Sam helped Dr. Ron Adany, the founder of BuildStartup100 to forge the initial partnerships that laid the groundwork for the initiative, as well as acting as Ron’s mediator and interpreter in critical meetings with several African countries, including Eswatini, Rwanda, and Morocco.
Previously, Sam established the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA) Morocco Policy Project and conducted research under Dr. Ofir Winter at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, focusing on the role of Jewish communities in Arab countries in promoting peace and geopolitical normalization. He also advised a former IDF general on importing Israeli agri-tech to Morocco. Sam served on the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) D.C. ACCESS board, where he focused on combatting anti-Semitism with the Anti-Semitism Taskforce.