Fiona Hill is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She recently served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. From 2006 to 2009, she served as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. 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."

Her most recent book describes her early life as a child lovingly reared by her parents under crushing poverty in England’s impoverished North East after the coal mines and steel mills closed. From that background she thrived to become a US citizen and rise to the highest positions in the US intelligence community.

Dr. Hill became well-known to the American people during her riveting testimony before the US House Intelligence Committee and before the Impeachment Committee. In recent days she has written many widely quoted op-eds in the New York Times, Politico and elsewhere on the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

Dr. Marie Berry is an Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She is the co-founder and director of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI), an effort to elevate and amplify the work that women activists are doing at the grassroots to advance peace, justice, and human rights across the world. Her award-winning first book, "War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Cambridge University Press 2018), examines the impact of mass violence on women’s political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia.
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Presented March 16, 2022.
Questions and Answers start at 42:00.
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