Fiona Hill

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Fiona Hill (2017)

Fiona Hill (born October 1965 in Bishop Auckland , County Durham , England ) is a former US security officer specializing in the former Soviet Union and Russian and European (Eurasian) relations ( National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia ). From 2006 to 2009 she worked under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia in the US National Security Council (NSC).

Hill has authored several books addressing issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy and strategic issues, particularly Vladimir Putin . She was appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs in the National Security Council (NSC) by US President Donald Trump in March 2017 . Hill resigned from this post in July 2019. Hill has been replaced by arms control expert Timothy (Tim) Morrison, who has served as the NSC's executive director of weapons of mass destruction and biological defense since July 2018. As part of the investigation into the Ukraine affair , Hill testified as the ex-employee of President Donald Trump on October 14, 2019 in a closed questioning in front of Congress lasting several hours. On November 21, 2019, she testified publicly in the Ukraine affair before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. When questioned, she made her unease about the opaque role of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. She also condemned the Republicans for promoting conspiracy theories that would only play into the hands of the Russian government who had planted those theories.

Life

Fiona Hill was born in northeast England in 1965 as the daughter of the miner Alfred Hill († 2012) and his wife June (née Murray). When most of the coal mines closed in the 1960s, the father planned to emigrate to the United States to work in the Pennsylvania or West Virginia mines . Because of his mother's illness (Fiona's grandmother), however, he had to give up his dream of emigrating to the USA. The family suffered financial hardship, and Fiona began taking odd jobs to support the family at the age of thirteen.

After attending the Bishop Barrington School, she studied Russian and Modern History at the University of St Andrews in Scotland , received a scholarship from the University of St Andrews and was able to study Russian at the State Linguistic University of Moscow (Maurice Thorez Institute for Foreign Languages) in 1987/88. complete - Hill is fluent in Russian. In 1989 she finished her studies (in St Andrews) with an MA . During this time, she was still considering a wide variety of career options: translator, journalist or a job in the UK Foreign Office.

While doing an internship at NBC , she happened to meet an American professor who pointed out the possibility of US scholarships to study Russia. In 1989 she was able to obtain the prestigious Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for post-graduate studies at Harvard University and graduated in 1991 with an MA with a regional study of the USSR. From 1991 to 1999 she held a number of positions at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS), including a. Coordinator of the Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-US Relations (1992), head of a project on ethnic conflicts in the former Soviet Union (1993/1994), deputy head of the project to strengthen democratic institutions (1994-1999), director of the annual US-Russian Symposium on financial and direct investment opportunities in Russia (1996–1999).

Already in 1998 she received her doctorate (at Harvard) with the dissertation In Search of Great Russia: Elites, Ideas, the State, and the Pre-Revolutionary Past in the New Russia 1991-1996 ( Richard Pipes was her doctoral supervisor) During this time she studied Kenneth Keen to know her future husband.

From 1999 to 2000 she worked as the director of strategic planning at the Eurasia Foundation in Washington DC. In 2002 she became a US citizen.

From 2006 to 2009 she was National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia in the US National Security Council (NSC) under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama .

In 2009 she joined the Brookings Institution , an established think tank, where she served as director of the Center on the United States and Europe from 2009 to 2017 .

When she was appointed by Trump, she took leave of absence from the Brookings Institute.

Books / Articles (selection)

Web links

Commons : Fiona Hill  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Policy June 18, 2019: Trump's Top Russia Aide to Depart. Fiona Hill will be replaced by the arms control expert Tim Morrison, signaling a possible shift toward nuclear talks.
  2. ↑ US NRC (United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission): Timothy Morrison
  3. ↑ Homeland Preparedness News November 16, 2018: National Security Council official frames nation's biodefense plan for Blue Ribbon Panel members
  4. ↑ CNN June 18, 2019: Top Russia expert leaving Trump's National Security Council
  5. ↑ Heavy October 14, 2019: Fiona Hill: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
  6. ^ New York Post October 14, 2019: Ex-White House Russia expert Fiona Hill delivers impeachment testimony
  7. ↑ taz October 16, 2019: Fiona Hill before the US Congress. Your words add to the pressure
  8. ↑ Impeachment: Russia Expert: Republicans Spread Fairy Tales. In: SZ.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 21, 2019, accessed on November 22, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ CBS News November 21, 2019: Hill says Sondland was sent on "domestic political errand" in Ukraine - s. here opening statement from Fiona Hill
  10. ↑ The Times March 4, 2017: Miner's daughter tipped as Trump adviser on Russia
  11. ↑ BBC November 22, 2019: Fiona Hill: UK coal miner's daughter turned top US Russia expert
  12. ↑ The Guardian November 21, 2019: Fiona Hill: the Durham miner's daughter creating waves in DC
  13. ^ Harvard - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Fiona Hill Q&A
  14. ↑ Harvard Alumni January 6, 2014: Fiona Hill PhD '98
  15. ↑ Harvard Alumni January 6, 2014: Fiona Hill PhD '98
  16. ^ Harvard - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Fiona Hill Q&A
  17. ^ Harvard - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Fiona Hill Q&A
  18. ^ Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill
  19. ↑ Harvard Alumni January 6, 2014: Fiona Hill PhD '98
  20. ↑ Her (unpublished) dissertation is quoted in Tom Bjorkman: Russia's Road to Deeper Democracy. Brookings Institution Press. Washington DC 2003, p. 118 + Angela Stent, Ursula Pesch u. a .: Putin's Russia. Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, p. 40
  21. ↑ Harvard Alumni January 6, 2014: Fiona Hill PhD '98
  22. ↑ Eurasia Foundation - Home
  23. ^ Brookings Institution: Fiona Hill
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Fiona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American security officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bishop Auckland , County Durham , England