Sir Donald Miller was educated at Banchory Academy and was awarded a BSc in Engineering from the University of Aberdeen in 1947.
[2] Miller's career spanned a number of private and public organisations in the electrical power industry.
This included an apprenticeship with Metropolitan-Vickers, the British Electricity Authority and Preece, Cardew and Rider consulting engineers.
He also held senior roles with the two Scottish electricity boards during a period of major technological change.
In 1974 he joined the South of Scotland Electricity Board[1] as Director of Engineering responsible for all engineering operations including the completion of three major power stations at Longannet (coal), Hunterston B (nuclear) and Inverkip (oil).