John Miri

President, Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance
Former Chief Administrative Officer, LCRA
John Miri is president of the Electric Grid Cybersecurity Alliance, a global consortium of utility executives dedicated to protecting the world’s electric grids from cyberattacks. Miri is a 25-year veteran of tech and cybersecurity who made his mark on utility resilience, cybersecurity, and digital transformation at LCRA – a $1.1 billion-dollar utility with six power plants, five hydroelectric dams, and the second-largest transmission network in Texas. As Chief Administrative Officer for LCRA, he delivered the successful turnaround of 22 company divisions, led a quarter of LCRA’s people, managed 46% of the utility’s non-fuel operating budget, and directed a $2.5 billion capital project portfolio.

Miri founded LCRA’s integrated resilience department, built the utility’s cybersecurity group, redesigned enterprise risk management, and successfully defended against billions of cyberphysical intrusion attempts. His team harmonized competing standards for IT and OT cybersecurity and was recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a global success story. Miri led his digital services team to accomplish the elusive goal of digital transformation, completing more than 400 technology projects to enable new business models.

He personally shepherded the implementation of three Artificial Intelligence systems at LCRA, including two that use unsupervised learning to detect previously unknown cyberattacks and a third that predicts power plant failures before they happen. In 2017, Miri was selected as one of the top 25 “Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers” in the United States by Government Technology magazine. He graduated from Harvard University with an honors degree in Physics in 1998.