Rachel Miller
Partner
Rachel advises clients on appropriations, regulatory strategy, and long-term positioning to shape outcomes in complex regulated industries.
Rachel Miller is a partner in FTP’s federal government relations practice and serves as the firm’s head of policy. Rachel also leads the firm’s energy practice as a highly-respected energy and environmental expert with 25 years of corporate, regulatory, and congressional experience.
Rachel joined the firm as a senior vice president in 2012, providing clients with unique government relations strategies, coalition management, third-party outreach, and deep ties within executive branch agencies and throughout Capitol Hill. Rachel’s deep knowledge of the federal appropriations and budget processes has proven to be an invaluable asset to clients. She has helped countless clients secure large Department of Energy grants, enabling their projects to move forward.
Prior to joining FTP, Rachel served as vice president of energy and environment practice at Capitol Solutions. Before that, she worked on mandatory climate change legislation and policies to support low-carbon power, as director of federal affairs for BP America. There, she co-founded the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Contact Group and managed BP’s legislative agenda within the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP).
She served for nearly four years as legislative assistant to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the former chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, as a policy advisor on energy, transportation, and agriculture issues. While on Senator Feinstein’s staff, Rachel drafted legislation that laid the groundwork for the first statutory increase in fuel economy standards adopted since 1975. She also played a key role in drafting energy market transparency legislation that was eventually incorporated as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. Rachel previously served in the House of Representatives as a legislative assistant for former Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY), focusing on energy policy, the environment, and education issues.
Rachel was the founder and president of the National Board of the Women’s Energy Network (WEN). Born and raised in New York, Rachel received a B,A. from Northwestern University and a Master’s degree in Political Management from George Washington University.
