Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to join Dr. Fiona Hill for a talk on her experience in the Trump administration, her recent memoir, and Putin's authoritarian vision for Russia on November 2, 2022, at 6 pm. Registration is required and open now.
Dr. Hill, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs, National Security Council, will be hosted by the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies. She will discuss her experience in the Trump administration, including her testimony during President Trump’s first impeachment inquiry. She’ll also elaborate on Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian vision for Russia, the subject of her new co-authored article in the centennial issue of Foreign Affairs. Finally, Dr. Hill will address her remarkable journey from a coal mining community in northeastern England to serving three American presidents and what she has learned along the way about the best way to safeguard American democracy, the subject of her recent memoir, There is Nothing for You Here.
Dr. Hill’s wide-ranging conversation is the inaugural event in a new REEES-Ridgway Center annual series featuring high profile scholar-practitioners who have had an important impact on recent world events.