Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)

Fiona Hill
Chancellor of Durham University
Assumed office
29 June 2023
Vice-Chancellor
Preceded bySir Thomas Allen
Senior Director for Europe and Russia, National Security Council
In office
April 4, 2017 – July 19, 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byCeleste Wallander
Succeeded byTim Morrison
Personal details
Born (1965-10-01) October 1, 1965 (age 59)
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States (since 2002)
Spouse
Kenneth Keen
(m. 1995)
Children1
Alma mater
CMG insignia

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]

  1. ^ www.durham.ac.uk
  2. ^ www.gov.uk
  3. ^ a b Sabbagh, Dan (July 19, 2024). "Labour's new defence adviser Fiona Hill: from the White House to Whitehall". The Guardian.
  4. ^ www.brookings.edu

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