Helen Milner

Helen V. Milner is an American political scientist. She is currently the B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she also directs the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. She has written extensively on issues related to international political economy, including international trade, the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and trade policy. In 2026, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.