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| People Fiona Hill Senior Fellow The Brookings Institution Fiona Hill is a frequent commentator on Russian and Eurasian affairs, and has researched and published extensively on a diverse range of issues related to Russia, relations among the states of the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, ethno-political conflicts in Eurasia, and 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 Press in December 2003; and her monograph Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival was published in London by the Foreign Policy Centre in 2004. Prior to joining The Brookings Institution, Hill was Director of Strategic Planning at the Eurasia Foundation in Washington, DC. From 1994-1999, she was Associate Director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (SDI) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and, from 1991-1994, she was Director of Harvard’s project on Ethnic Conflict in the former Soviet Union, Coordinator of Harvard’s Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations, and a Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government. Hill is also President of the St. Andrews University American Foundation; on the Advisory Board of the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute in New York; and on the editorial boards of Demokratizatsiya and the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been a consultant to The Hague Initiative (an international roundtable on the resolution of conflicts in the Russian Federation and the former Soviet Union, with a special focus on the 1994-1996 war in Chechnya), and has testified before Congress on the war in Chechnya, human rights in Central Asia, the role of the Central Asian states in the U.S. war against terrorism, and long-term security threats in post-Soviet Eurasia. A Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, Hill holds an M.A. degree in Russian and Modern History from St. Andrews University in Scotland; an A.M. degree in Soviet Studies, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. She has also pursued studies at the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. |
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