Dr Fiona Hill, 2020
British-American foreign affairs specialist and academic
48 x 60 inches
Oil on canvas
“The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016.”
—Fiona Hill
Dr. Fiona Hill is the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe Policy program at Brookings Institution. She is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council specializing in Russian and European affairs and an intelligence analyst under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009. In the first quarter of 2017 Hill was appointed by President Donald Trump as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on his National Security Council staff. Noted for her plain-spoken delivery, she was a witness in the November 2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. On January 11, 2021 an opinion written by Hill described the basis of the January 6th 2021 attempted coup that provoked the second impeachment of Donald Trump.