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Fiona Hill, former top Russia adviser to the Trump White House.
David Holmes, U.S. Embassy in Ukraine official. He overheard the July 26 call between Sondland and President Trump.
Hill, 52, has had quite the history behind her:
She was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in northern England, to a coal miner and a nurse. She studied at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She then studied at Harvard University, where she gained her master’s degree in Russian and modern history in 1991, and her Ph.D. in history in 1998 under Richard Pipes, Akira Iriye, and Roman Szporluk. While at Harvard she was a Frank Knox Fellow and met her future husband at Cabot House.
Hill served as an intelligence officer under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009. She was appointed in April 2017 by Donald Trump as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on his National Security Council staff.
Hill decided to step down from her position in August 2019. Hill was replaced by Tim Morrison, a position from which he later resigned on October 31, 2019.
Hill’s books include:
Hill, Fiona; Gaddy, Clifford G. (2003). The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0815736455. LCCN 2003016801.
Hill, Fiona (September 2004). Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival (PDF). Foreign Policy Centre. ISBN 978-1903558386. OCLC 68266192. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 19, 2019.
Hill, Fiona (2013). Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin. Brookings Focus Books. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0815723769. LCCN 2012041470.
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