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Charles Hill

Hoover Institution: Research Fellow
Yale University: Diplomat in Residency
Project for the New American Century

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Hill is a decorated Foreign Service officer who has worked for or been associated with a number of leading universities and conservative organizations, including the Project for the New American Century and the Hoover Institution. His work has focused on foreign policy issues in Asia and the Middle East.

Hill has collaborated on several writing projects with former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. He worked on Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s 1997 book Egypt's Road to Jerusalem and was the principal editor of a three-volume collection The Papers of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Yale Press, 2003. (1), (4) Hill also was one of several Yale faculty members who contributed to The Age of Terror, which was published by Basic Books soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States. (3)

Hill has been awarded the Superior Honor Award from the Department of State, the Distinguished Honor Award, the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, and the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. (1)

Institutional Affiliations

  • Hoover Institution: Research fellow
  • Project for a New American Century (PNAC): Signed several PNAC letters (2)
  • Harvard University: Fellow at the Harvard East Asia Research Center, 1970
  • Cornell University: Clark Fellow, 1989
  • Yale University: Diplomat in Residency and Lecturer in International Studies (1)
  • U.N.: Special consultant on Policy to the Secretary General of the U.N., 1992-1996
  • Government Service

  • Department of State: Chief of Staff, 1983 (1)
  • Department of State: Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East, 1982
  • Department of State: Director of Israel and Arab-Israeli affairs, 1981
  • U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv: Political Counselor, 1979
  • Deputy Director of the Israel Desk: 1978
  • Speech Writer for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: 1975
  • U.S. Embassy in Saigon: Mission Coordinator, 1971
  • Corporate Connections/Business Interests

  • Yale University:
  • U.S. Foreign Service: Career Officer
  • Education

  • Brown University: B.A., 1957 (1)
  • University of Pennsylvania: J.D., 1960; M.A. in American Studies, 1961

  • Sources

    (1) Hoover Institution: Charles Hill
    http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/hill.html

    (2) Project for the New American Century: Search: Charles Hill
    http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=2557452&pid=r&mode=ALL&query=charles+hill&SUBMIT=Find%21&t=s

    (3) Yale University Faculty
    http://www.yale.edu/iss/faculty.html#Hill

    (4) Amazon.com: Egypt's Road to Jerusalem
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679452451/qid=1066324992/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1270278-0044058?v=glance&s=books


     

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