Join us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa will lead the briefing. Costa a former intelligence officer of 34 years with 25 of those in active duty in hot spots such as Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq is also a past Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. He will be joined by Dr. Fiona Hill, who is a Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
During two leaves from Brookings, she served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019; and from 2006 to 2009, she served as National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at The National Intelligence Council. Prior to joining Brookings, Hill was director of strategic planning at The Eurasia Foundation in Washington, D.C. From 1991 to 1999, she held a number of positions directing technical assistance and research projects at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, including associate director of the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project, director of the Project on Ethnic Conflict in the Former Soviet Union, and coordinator of the Trilateral Study on Japanese-Russian-U.S. Relations.
Hill has researched and published extensively on issues related to Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, regional conflicts, energy, and strategic issues. She is co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin and The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold. Her monograph, Energy Empire: Oil, Gas and Russia’s Revival, was published by the London Foreign Policy Centre in 2004. Hill’s most recent book, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century is a memoir which includes her experiences serving in the Trump administration and her recommendations for the future drawn from her life and work.
Following their discussion of key issues, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.
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