“The Fight for Climate after COVID-19” by Alice Hill
Alice Hill’s work at the Council on Foreign Relations focuses on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. Prior to CFR Hill served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and as senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff. In 2009, Hill served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leading plans on climate adaptation, biological and chemical threats, pandemics, and human trafficking. Hill has served as a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 2016 to 2019 and previously served as a judge on the superior and municipal courts in Los Angeles and chief of the white-collar crime prosecution unit in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s office.
She has won numerous awards and written in several publications including The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Nature. Her most recent book is The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 (Oxford Press, 2021). is Hill received a bachelor’s degree in history and economics with distinction from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law (https://www.cfr.org/expert/alice-c-hill).