Alice C. Hill, JD
United States

Alice C. Hill is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. Her areas of expertise include climate change, Infrastructure, Food and Water Security, Disasters, and Energy and Environment.

Her work at CFR focuses on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. She previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff where she led the development of national policy to build resilience to catastrophic risks, including climate change and biological threats. Her co-authored book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption, was published in 2019. In 2020, Yale University awarded her the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis.

She has been a speaker in several GMACCC and related events including most recently in the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS), ‘Strategic Conversation’ series (14 October 2020) and the conference on Climate Security Challenges for NATO (17 September 2020) where she delivered a video message on “Building Transatlantic Climate Resilience: Considerations and Capabilities”


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