Elliott Lecture: The domestic and foreign policy challenges of dealing with Russia
Elliott Lecture: The domestic and foreign policy challenges of dealing with Russia
Dr Fiona Hill is a Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. She recently served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. She served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council during 2006-2009. She is co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).
Prior to joining Brookings, Hill was Director of Strategic Planning at The Eurasia Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1999, she held a number of positions directing technical assistance and research projects at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, including Associate Director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, Director of the Project on Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union, and coordinator of the Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations.
Her research and extensive publications cover issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Her book with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy,“The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold,” was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2003, and her monograph, “Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival,” was published by the London Foreign Policy Centre in 2004. The first edition of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2013, also with Clifford Gaddy.
Hill holds a master’s in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow. She also holds a master’s in Russian and modern history from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and has pursued studies at Moscow’s Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The event will take place on Friday 13 November, 5.00pm-6.30pm GMT. Despite the title of this series, the event this time will be less of a lecture, more of an interactive discussion on the topic The domestic and foreign policy challenges of dealing with Russia.
To register, please email Richard Ramage: resc-webinar@sant.ox.ac.uk by 5pm GMT on Tuesday 10 November