Michael Miklaucic is the Oswaldo Aranha Chair Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). He concurrently is a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, and Adjunct Lecturer at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.

His most recent U.S. government posting (2009-2024) was Senior Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of PRISM Journal at National Defense University where he edited seven books and 41 issues of PRISM. Previously he served in various positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of State, including USAID representative on the Civilian Response Corps Inter-Agency Task Force, as the Senior Program Officer in the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance, and Rule of Law Specialist in the Center for Democracy and Governance.

In 2002-2003 he served as the Department of State Deputy for War Crimes Issues. In that position he was responsible for U.S. relations with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), war crimes issues and negotiations in East Timor and Cambodia, and the early implementation of the Sudan Peace Act.

His publications have appeared in The Financial Times, The Diplomat, The Hill, Real Clear Defense, and others. He studied at the University of California, the London School of Economics, and the School for Advanced International Studies.