Fiona Hill is director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. From 2006-2009, Fiona was on leave from Brookings as the National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at The U.S. National Intelligence Council. Prior to joining Brookings, she was director of strategic planning at The Eurasia Foundation in Washington, DC, and held a number of positions directing technical assistance and research projects at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a frequent commentator on Russian and Eurasian affairs, who has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues.

Fiona is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Brookings Press, 2013)with Brookings Senior Fellow Clifford Gaddy. Their earlier co-authored book, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, was published by Brookings Press in December 2003. Fiona's monograph, Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia's Revival, was published by the London Foreign Policy Centre in 2004.

Hill holds an A.M. in Soviet Studies and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University where she was a Frank Knox Fellow; an M.A. degree 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, and a member of the Board of Trustees of The Eurasia Foundation.