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.

[1] Appointed a Defence Advisor to HMG upon Labour's election to Government in July 2024,[2] Dr Hill was formerly an official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs.

[7] She has revealed that the manager of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club threatened to blacklist her when she reported being sexually assaulted while waitressing during her student days in St Andrews.

[9] In 1987, she was an exchange student in the Soviet Union, where, while interning for NBC News as a translator, she witnessed the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

[8] She later wrote about the experience in The Siberian Curse: "I noticed that many aspects of British (and, by relation, American) culture were surprisingly, even unexpectedly similar, and that the Russians and the West had a good deal in common.

Before long, other aspects of the Soviet and Russian [...] mentalities and cultures reared their heads, and these gaps seemed larger and more consuming than any novel or textbook could transmit".

Continuing in another passage, she writes: "Whether or not these gaps can be effectively bridged or, at least, mitigated will remain the guiding question for this field of study for decades to come.

[19][20] In 2017, Hill took a leave of absence from the Brookings Institution, where she was director for the Center on the United States and Europe, while also on the National Security Council.

[27][28][29] Some Republicans questioned the credibility of her testimony, including Connie Mack IV, who described Hill as a "George Soros mole infiltrating the national-security apparatus".

"[31][32] In response to a question from that committee's chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, Hill stated: "The Russians' interests are frankly to delegitimize our entire presidency...

[35] Among many analysts sought for their assessment of the January 6 assault on the Capitol in 2021, Hill stated to The Daily Beast, "The President was trying to stage a coup.

"[37] On January 11, 2021, an opinion authored by Hill explicated the basis for her assessment of the attempted coup that precipitated the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

[42] During an interview by The New York Times on April 11, 2022, Hill was asked about the motivation for the January 6 rally and provoking the assault on the Capitol.

[48] In a later interview with Politico, Hill said the war is the third great power conflict in Europe in a little over a century, saying "it's the end of the existing world order.

[3][50] Hill met her husband, Kenneth Alvin Keen (born 1966),[51] at Cabot House while a graduate student at Harvard.