Fiona Hill came to prominence as an expert witness during the October 2019 hearings by the US House of Representatives on the impeachment of former president Donald Trump. Hill was a senior fellow and Russian affairs specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, and had been an intelligence analyst under former presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009. In 2017, Trump appointed her senior director for European and Russian affairs on his National Security Council staff. She left to return to Brookings in July 2019.
Hill’s testimony captured media attention since, as stated by The New Yorker, “it isn’t every day that a former official in the Trump White House effectively accuses congressional Republicans of promoting ‘false narratives’ in a manner that benefits the Kremlin”. More specifically, she dismissed the Trump Administration’s narrative that it was Ukraine and Russia that meddled in the 2016 US election and directly…