Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)

Fiona Hill CMG
Chancellor of Durham University
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 June 2023
Preceded by	Thomas Allen
Senior Director for Europe and Russia of the National Security Council
In office April 2017 – July 19, 2019
President	Donald Trump
Succeeded by	Tim Morrison
Personal details
Born	October 1965 (age 58) Bishop Auckland, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom United States (since 2002)
Spouse	Kenneth Keen ​ (m. 1995)​
Children	1
Education	University of St Andrews (MA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)

Fiona Hill CMG (born October 1965) is a British-American foreign affairs specialist and author. She is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council, specializing in Russian and European affairs. She was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. She studied Russian at St Andrews University in Scotland and at Harvard University in the US,^[1] where she earned a Ph.D. in history in 1998. She was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. She was installed as Chancellor of Durham University in June 2023, and was appointed defence advisor to the UK government following the election of a Labour government in July 2024.^[1]