Fiona Hill | |
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Chancellor of Durham University | |
Assumed office 29 June 2023 | |
Vice-Chancellor | |
Preceded by | Sir Thomas Allen |
Senior Director for Europe and Russia, National Security Council | |
In office April 4, 2017 – July 19, 2019 | |
President | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Celeste Wallander |
Succeeded by | Tim Morrison |
Personal details | |
Born | Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England | October 1, 1965
Citizenship |
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Spouse |
Kenneth Keen (m. 1995) |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | |
Fiona Hill CMG (born 1 October 1965) is an Anglo-American academic, foreign affairs advisor and author, who since 2023 has served as Chancellor of Durham University.[1]
Appointed a Defence Advisor to HMG upon Labour's election to Government in July 2024,[2] Dr Hill was formerly an official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs. She was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[3]
Hill read Russian at the University of St Andrews (graduating MA), then pursued postgraduate studies in History at Harvard University (taking a PhD in 1998),[3] before being elected a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.[4]