There Is Nothing for You Here: A Conversation with Dr. Fiona Hill

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“Russia is America’s Ghost of Christmas Future '' Dr. Fiona Hill writes in her new book, “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty First Century.” As a Russia expert, policy veteran, and a child of northern England’s decline as coal mines shuttered and opportunity disappeared, Hill sees troubling parallels between the path that has taken Russia to autocracy, that took northern England to despair, and declining opportunity and growing divisions in the United States. Join the World Affairs Council for a conversation on Russia’s and the United States’ converging paths and how we can rebuild opportunity and U.S. democracy  with the former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017-2019, and current senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brooking Institution. 

You can buy Fiona Hill’s book, “There is Nothing For You Here” at Third Place Books here.

About the Speaker:

Fiona Hill is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. 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. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. 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.

Hill has researched and published extensively on 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 St. Andrews University 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.