A Conversation with Fiona Hill
Prior to joining Brookings, Fiona Hill was director of strategic planning at The Eurasia Foundation in Washington, D.C. Before that, she held a number of positions directing technical assistance and research projects at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, including associate director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project; she has served as director of the Project on Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union; and also served as coordinator of the Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations.
Hill has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Her book with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2003, and her monograph, Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival, was published by the London Foreign Policy Centre in 2004. The first edition of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2013, also with Clifford Gaddy.
Hill holds a master’s in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow. She also holds a master’s in Russian and modern history from St. Andrews University in Scotland, and has pursued studies at Moscow’s Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Dr. Hill will deliver the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies’ 2022 Arthur Adams Family Distinguished Lecture. As one of CMC’s 75th Anniversary Distinguished Speakers, Dr. Hill will highlight issues in “Unity and Division” one of the three academic collaboration themes of our special 75th Anniversary celebration.
(Adapted from the Brookings Institute)