Dr. William Hill joined the faculty of the National War College in July,
2007, after a year as an Associate of Georgetown University's Institute
for the Study of Diplomacy. A retired foreign service officer, Dr. Hill
is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union, east-west relations,
and European multilateral diplomacy. Previously he served two terms
– January 2003-July 2006 and June 1999-November 2001 – as
Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, where he was charged with negotiation
of a political settlement to the Transdniestrian conflict and facilitation
of the withdrawal of Russian forces, arms, and ammunition from Moldova.
He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington DC from November 2001 to September 2002.
During his foreign service career he has served in Moscow, Leningrad,
Belgrade, the U.S. CSCE delegation in Vienna, and Dhaka. In Washington,
DC, he has held a number of posts involving east-west relations, political-military
affairs, and intelligence analysis, including CSCE Coordinator and Chief
of Analysis for Eastern Europe in the State Department, European Division
Chief in the Voice of America, and Senior Advisor for Russia, Ukraine,
Moldova, and Belarus in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the
Pentagon.
Prior to joining the foreign service, Dr. Hill held teaching and research
posts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Virginia Tech, and
the Harvard Russian Research Center. He holds BA in history from Harvard
and a PhD in Russian history and Soviet politics from the University
of California at Berkeley, and studied at Leningrad State University
and Moscow State University as a participant in the U.S.-Soviet academic
exchange. His languages include Russian, Serbian, Croatian, German,
Romanian, and French.
EMAIL: hillw3@ndu.edu
