The Luxury Playbook
Larisa B. Miller
Contributor, Emerging Markets and Family Offices

Larisa B. Miller

Larisa B. Miller is the Founder and Chief Executive of Phoenix Global, a specialised global advisory firm headquartered in Miami and operating across more than thirty countries. Phoenix Global advises family offices, governments, sovereign linked institutions and Fortune 500 corporations on infrastructure, investment and cross border development across emerging markets. Her career spans more than two decades across the Gulf, Africa, Europe and the Americas, including twelve years in the Middle East. She spent nearly five years as Head of Business Development and Investment for members of the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi before founding Phoenix Global as an independent firm. Through Provenance Family Advisory, which she co founded, she guides families through the transitions that decide whether their enterprises endure, including succession, sale and global expansion. At The Luxury Playbook, she contributes analysis on emerging market capital flows, sovereign linked investment and the strategic corridors connecting the Gulf, Africa and global wealth, with particular focus on how family offices and private investors can position across regions that most investment committees treat in isolation.

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Specialisms
Family Office StrategyEmerging MarketsSovereign CapitalCross Border InvestmentSuccession and Generational TransitionGulf and Africa StrategyInfrastructure and Development

Background & credentials

  • Founder and CEO, Phoenix Global, advising across more than thirty countries
  • Co Founder and Principal, Provenance Family Advisory
  • Former Head of Business Development and Investment for members of the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi
  • Adviser on family office cross border capital and sustainability
  • More than fifteen board and advisory positions across four continents
  • Recognised by The Top 100 Magazine, International Business Times and Sovereign Magazine
  • Co author of The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on Ethics, published by Springer
  • Co author of The Rising Role of Women in Family Offices and Family Businesses, published by Globe Law and Business
  • Memoir I Drove My Guardian Angel to Drink, forthcoming in autumn 2026
  • Forthcoming books Built Different, Teaching Uphill and Uncommon Ground in 2027

Recent stories

An older generation passes a globe shaped investment structure to a younger generation, illustrating cross border succession risk.Investors' Lounge

The Cross Border Risk Most Investors Underprice

Larisa B. Miller explains why generational succession on both sides of an international deal is becoming a defining risk for family offices and cross border investors.

Collage of the African continent map over a red arch and a blue question mark with a hornbill, set against a fan of international banknotes.Investors' Lounge

Why Family Offices Are Quietly Reallocating Into Africa

No market in global finance is being misread more consistently than Africa. Larisa B. Miller on the capital already moving, the Gulf corridor, and the window that closes within five years.