Biography of Kent R. Hill
Assistant Administrator For Europe and Eurasia
Acting Assistant Administrator for Global Health
Dr. Kent R. Hill was sworn in on Nov. 6, 2001, as Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID is the government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide. On January 21, 2005, President Bush also designated Dr. Hill as Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Global Health.
As head of the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, Hill oversees USAID programs totaling over $675 million in 23 countries plus Kosovo, spanning the Balkans to Central Asia, including all countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as Cyprus, Ireland, and Turkey.
As Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Global Health, Hill is responsible for a Bureau which in 2005 manages or co-manages over $2 billion of health programs all over the world. The Bureau seeks to provide global leadership in the effort to improve the quality, availability, and use of essential health services. USAID focuses its efforts on HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis and malaria), maternal and child health, family planning, environmental health, and nutrition.
Before coming to USAID, Hill served as president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass., from 1992 to 2001. From 1986 to 1992, he was president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. He taught European and Russian history at Seattle Pacific University from 1980 to 1986.
A graduate of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, Hill has a master's degree in Russian studies and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published books on Christianity in Russia and the former Soviet Union and more than 50 articles and reviews on subjects such as the Soviet
Union and Russia, human rights, religion in communist countries, Russian intellectual history, Marxism, and development.
Hill has been a guest speaker on many college and university campuses and at numerous academic and public policy conferences. He is a noted expert on human rights and international religious freedom issues and has been an active participant in dialogue between Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, Orthodox and other religious groups.
A native of Nampa, Idaho, Hill and his wife, Janice, live in Fairfax, Virginia.
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