Alice Hill

Alice Chamberlayne Hill is an American policy-maker, thought leader, and academic. She currently serves as the David M. Rubinstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. During the Obama administration, she was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Resilience Policy at the National Security Council, leading development of policy regarding national security and climate change, building climate resilience considerations and capabilities into international development and other federal initiatives, and developing national risk-management standards for damaging natural hazards. Prior, she served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as a federal prosecutor, and judge and supervising judge within the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Oxford University Press published her The Fight for Climate After COVID-19 in 2021, as well as her co-authored book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow, in 2019. Hill is a frequent author whose work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Axios, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, The Bridge, The Hill, Lawfare, CNN, The Bulletin and other media. She has appeared as an expert commentator on NPR, CNN, and MSNBC.

Education Hill attended Stanford University, where she earned her BA with distinction in history and economics. She went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia Law School.

Legal career Hill started her judicial career by serving as a law clerk for federal District Court Judge Joseph Young for the District of Maryland. She then worked as an associate for de Chambrun and Associates in Paris, France, and Morrison and Foerster in Los Angeles, California.

Hill next joined the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles as an Assistant United States Attorney. She eventually served as chief of the major frauds unit, supervising over thirty prosecutors handling white-collar crime involving losses in the billions of dollars. While at the US Attorney's Office, she served as co-lead prosecutor for the successful prosecution of Charles Keating, Jr., which at the time was the largest white-collar crime case ever investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The US Department of Justice honored her with the John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement.

Post-Government Work Hill is the David M. Rubinstein senior fellow for energy and environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she focuses on risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. Her mother, Elizabeth Hill, founded the publishing house, Starr-Hill Press, with Hill's mother-in-law, Martha Starr.

Hill is married to Peter Starr, Provost at American University. They are the parents of two adult daughters.