Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)
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 of the United States 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 | October 1, 1965 Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England |
| 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.
Appointed a defence adviser upon Labour's election to Government in July 2024, 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.
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), before being elected a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.