Rural Poverty and Land Tenure Security in China
Lincoln Miller is the senior director for program management at Landesa. Landesa, which received the Kravis Prize in 2006, works with governments around the world to advance land rights reforms by using local law and public policy tools.
Miller provides strategic leadership and oversight for Landesa’s program work throughout the world. He has held several senior positions at Landesa including chief operations officer, chief program officer, and chief financial officer. Before coming to Landesa, Mr. Miller spent twenty-five years working within the business and government sectors, holding a number of positions in the educational travel industry, serving as a founding member of a start-up, and as a certified public accountant. Working in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, Mr. Miller has initiated and executed successful growth strategies that have yielded financial, social, and organizational returns in many different structural and challenging environments.
Miller’s Athenaeum talk will focus on Landesa’s work in China and specifically address recent historic legal and policy changes through which the Chinese central government has laid the foundation for rural development. These historic legal changes, if fully implemented, can help small-holder farmers spark and sustain broad-based development in China, fostering a more equitable and stable society.