Fiona Hill

About

Politician and advisor who was the senior director for European and Russian affairs on U.S. President Donald Trump's National Security Council staff. In October of 2019, she testified before a U.S. Congress committee during the impeachment inquiry for President Donald Trump. 

Before Fame

She received her doctorate in Soviet studies from Harvard University. 

Trivia

She was an exchange student in the Soviet Union in 1987. At the Brookings Institution, Hill worked closely with Igor Danchenko. In 2010, Danchenko, Hill and Erica Downs co-authored a paper called "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? The Realities of a Rising China and Implications for Russia's Energy Ambitions". Hill introduced Danchenko to Christopher Steele and to U.S.-based public-relations executive Charles Dolan Jr., who would later become one of Danchenko's sources for the Steele dossier.

Family Life

She got married in 1995. She is the mother to one daughter. 

Associated With

She witnessed U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.