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 of the United States 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
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States (since 2002)
Spouse
Kenneth Keen
(m. 1995)
Children1
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.