Fiona Hill is a Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and Chancellor of Durham University in the United Kingdom. From 2017 to 2019 she served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council and earlier, was National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia. In 2024–25 she was one of three external reviewers, alongside Lord Robertson and General Sir Richard Barrons, of the UK’s Strategic Defence Review, published in June 2025. Born in County Durham, she studied at St Andrews and holds an M.A. in Soviet studies and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard, where she was a Frank Knox Fellow and now serves on the Board of Overseers. She is the author of the memoir There Is Nothing for You Here (2021) and co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin. She was named a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2023 and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy in 2026.
