Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill is a Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution and Chancellor of Durham University in the United Kingdom. She was recently elected to the Harvard University Board of Overseers.

From 2017 to 2019, Hill served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the U.S. National Security Council. She previously served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the US National Intelligence Council from 2006 to 2009. Hill joined Brookings in 2000 and directed the Center on the United States and Europe from 2009 to 2017. Earlier in her career, she held a number of positions at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and served as Director of Strategic Planning at the Eurasia Foundation in Washington, D.C.

She is the author of the bestselling memoir There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century, and co-author, with Clifford G. Gaddy, of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold. She has researched and written extensively on Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic affairs.

Among her recent honors, Hill delivered the BBC’s 2022 Reith Lectures and was awarded the Insignia of Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland. In 2023, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George by the United Kingdom for services to international relations. She holds a doctorate in history and a master’s in Soviet studies from Harvard University, as well as a master’s in Russian and modern history from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She was a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard and also studied at the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow.