Christopher Hill is Senior Associate Fellow at SAIS Europe

Christopher Hill, MA, DPhil (Oxon) is Emeritus Professor of International Relations in the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He is also a Senior Associate Professor at SAIS Bologna, Johns Hopkins University. The first thirty years of his career were spent at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he was the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations between 1991-2004. From 2004-2016 he was the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at Cambridge. His most recent books are: Chatham House: the First Hundred Years edited with Michael Cox, Alex May and Caroline Soper (2026); International Relations and the European Union, 4th ed., edited with Michael Smith and Sophie Vanhoonacker (2023); The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit (Polity, 2019); Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century (2016); and The National Interest in Question: Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (2013). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2007 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2025. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the Peloponnese at Corinth in 2015, became an Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017 and received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the British International Studies Association in 2022. His interests lie mainly in the interplay between domestic and international politics.