Beschreibung

Talk with Fiona Hill, Washington, D.C.
Fiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces around her. Her father urged her to get out of their blighted corner of northern England: “There is nothing for you here, pet,” he said. The coal-miner’s daughter managed to go further than he ever could have dreamed: She studied in Moscow and at Harvard, became an American citizen, and served three U.S. Presidents. As a celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness, Fiona Hill draws on her personal journey out of poverty as well as her unique perspective as a historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to those who grow up without privilege. She will talk about her upbringing in Tübingen's Sister City Durham, UK, and how her school exchange to Tübingen shaped her life. With a special focus on the topic of “opportunity”, Hill will explain to what extent the lack of equal opportunities is fueling the division of society in the U.S., but also in Europe. In addition, she will address the current situation in Ukraine with its consequences for the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.

Fiona Hill is Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She served as deputy assistant to the president, (as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council,) and as national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. She holds a master’s degree in Soviet studies and a doctorate in history from Harvard University. Hill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and lives in the Washington D.C. area.

In English

Location: d.a.i. hall and online at www.dai-tuebingen.de/hill
Admission: free

In cooperation with Universitätsstadt Tübingen, Fachabteilung Kunst, Kultur und internationale Beziehungen

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen (d.a.i.)

Karlstrasse 3
72072 Tübingen

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