Fiona Hill is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Hill has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. Her books include “The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold,” (Brookings Institution Press, 2003) with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy, and her monograph, “Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival,” (London Foreign Policy Centre, 2004). The first edition of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” was published by Brookings Institution Press in December 2013, also with Clifford Gaddy. She is author of “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century” and co-author of “Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin” (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).
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.