Fiona Hill

Fiona McLeod Hill , formerly known as Fiona Cunningham, is a British political adviser, business strategist, and founder of Future Resilience Forum. She served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff supporting prime minister Theresa May, alongside Nick Timothy, until her resignation following the 2017 general election.

Early life Fiona Hill was born in Glasgow, and attended St Stephen's Roman Catholic Secondary School in Port Glasgow. She left government after being forced to resign as May's special adviser in a 2014 dispute with Michael Gove over alleged extremism in schools, prompting then Prime Minister, David Cameron, to insist that May sack her. Hill then became an associate director of the Centre for Social Justice think tank,

Downing Street On 14 July 2016, following the resolution of the 2016 Conservative leadership election, Hill was appointed joint chief of staff to Theresa May, the day after May became Prime Minister.

Little of her own political stance is on public record. Unlike Timothy, with whom she shared the post of Chief of Staff for a year, she avoided writing opinion articles. Additionally, as noted by May biographer Rosa Prince, author of Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister, Hill was likely consulted by May before the decision in April to call the election.

The 2017 general election saw the return of the Conservatives as a minority government, with their majority dependent on the Democratic Unionist Party, leading to widespread calls within the party for both Hill and Timothy to be sacked. According to reports, Hill irritated the Scottish Conservatives in particular. They complained of her excessive "interference" and of being told not to run a campaign too detached from the one run from London.

Future Resilience Forum In October 2023, Fiona Hill founded Future Resilience Forum, a non-partisan international forum, where the key challenges of our time can be discussed under the Chatham House rule by global experts and international political figures.

The 2023 Future Resilience Forum focused on the Global South and was led at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. The Forum was attended by a range of world leaders, including the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Senegal's President Macky Sall, Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid, former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, Chairman of the Independent Energy Policy Institute Narendra Taneja, Minister for Digital in Japan Taro Kono, CEO Control Risks Nick Allan and two former heads of MI6, Sir John Scarlett and Sir Alex Younger and many others.

Personal life While at Sky News Hill met Tim Cunningham, a TV executive, whom she married; the couple later divorced. Hill subsequently lived with Sir Charles Farr, whom she met at the Home Office during his time as Director-General for the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism. Farr died in 2019.