About Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill is a native of Bishop Auckland where her father worked as a coal miner and her mother as a midwife. After studying at the University of St. Andrews, she won a scholarship to study at Harvard University where she earned a PhD in Russian history.
From 2006 to 2009, Fiona was an intelligence analyst under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In 2017, she was appointed by Donald Trump as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe and Russia at The White House National Security Council. In 2019, she testified at President Trump’s first impeachment trial. She is now Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States & Europe at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
Fiona is author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century (Mariner Books, 2021) and co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Brookings Institution Press, 2015). She has become a major public figure in the US and UK, commenting on US domestic politics and global affairs. She has worked extensively on social mobility and community regeneration in the US, UK, and Germany.