Elliot Ackerman, Speaker for Tuesday March 4 and Wednesday March 5, had to cancel.


Our speaker will be:
Christopher Hill


The European Union and the Transatlantic Relationship

Ambassador Hill will draw on his recent experiences in Serbia, An EU candidate country, to discuss the ongoing crisis in transatlantic relations and the prospects for the European project going forward.

Biography

Christopher Hill is a five time ambassador who over the course of his foreign service career served seven presidents beginning as a junior officer. He recently completed his posting as US Ambassador to Serbia in January 2025. Ambassador Hill previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Korea, Poland, and to the Republic of North Macedonia. In Washington, he served as US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and as Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six Party Talks on North Korea. He also served as a Senior Director in the National Security Council staff and special advisor to the president for SE European Affairs. Earlier in his career, Hill was the special envoy for the Kosovo crisis and prior to that was a senior member of the U.S. negotiating team whose efforts led to the Dayton Peace Agreement, ending the Bosnian war.

Following his retirement from the Foreign Service in 2010, Hill was Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and then Chief Advisor to the Chancellor for Global Engagement and Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy, at the University of Denver. In 2021, Hill was named the George Ball Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. In October 2021, he was called upon to return to diplomatic service when President Biden nominated him to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia.

Hill earned a B.A. at Bowdoin College and an M.S. at the Naval War College.