Weekly Meeting: Ambassador Christopher Hill
Thu, Oct 15
|Cambria Hotel Madeira Beach
Ambassador Christopher R. Hill is an author, speaker, consultant, news analyst, foreign policy expert and professor. Hill is a former career diplomat, a four-time ambassador, nominated by three presidents.
Time & Location
Oct 15, 2020, 11:40 AM – 3:40 PM
Cambria Hotel Madeira Beach, 15015 Madeira Way, Madeira Beach, FL 33708, USA
About the event
Ambassador Christopher R. Hill is an author, speaker, consultant, news analyst, foreign policy expert and professor. Hill is a former career diplomat, a four-time ambassador, nominated by three presidents. Chris served 33 years in the U.S. foreign service and led the University of Denver’s school of international affairs for another seven, and will join SIPA’s faculty as George W. Ball Adjunct Professor for spring 2021.
Over his long career, Hill was at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy in multiple regions, including as ambassador to Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Poland, and Macedonia.
As assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Hill led U.S. efforts to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, which induced North Korea to catalogue its nuclear activities and freeze and disable its plutonium production in 2008-2009.
Other career highlights include Hill’s service as U.S. envoy in…