Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill

Christopher R. Hill is an American diplomat who currently serves as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill The Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs is the head of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs within the United States Department of State. ...

Hill graduated from Bowdoin College with an B.A. in economics. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from 1974 to 1976. He received a Master's degree from the Naval War College in 1994. Bowdoin College, founded in 1794, is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... It has been suggested that Crisis corps be merged into this article or section. ... “M.S.” redirects here. ... The Naval War College. ...

Hill speaks several European languages (Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Albanian) and Korean.

He is married and has three children.

Diplomacy

Hill served as the ambassador to Macedonia from 1996 to 1999, Special Envoy to Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, ambassador to Poland from 2000 to 2004, and ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2004 to 2005 before being appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Kosovo (Albanian: Kosovë or Kosova, Serbian: Косово и Метохија, transliterated Kosovo i Metohija; also Космет, transliterated Kosmet) is a province in southern Serbia which has been under United Nations administration since 1999. ...

While on a fellowship with the American Political Science Association, Hill served as a member of the staff of Congressman Stephen Solarz. The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, serves more than 15,000 members in more than 80 countries, bringing a variety of services to political scientists both inside and outside academic institutions. ... Stephen J. Solarz is a member of the Intellibridge Expert Network and Vice-Chairman of International Crisis Group. ...

While working on Balkan issues, Hill worked closely with Richard Holbrooke, serving as his deputy at the Dayton Peace Talks in 1995. Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. ... The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on December 14...

In November 2006 President George W. Bush nominated Hill for the grade of career minister, the second-highest rank for career diplomats. The elite title is one step below career ambassador.

Negotiations with North Korea

Hill served as the head of the U.S. delegation to the six-party talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis. The six-party talks aim to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns raised by the North Korean nuclear weapons program. ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul: 조선민주주의인민공화국; Hanja: 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國), is a country in eastern Asia...

In the first visit to North Korea by a senior American official in over five years, Hill flew into Pyongyang on June 21, 2007 for a two day visit where he was warmly greeted by Ri Gun, the North’s deputy nuclear negotiator at the airport. “We want to get the six-party process moving,” Mr. Hill said. “We hope that we can make up for some of the time that we lost this spring, and so I’m looking forward to good discussions about that.” The visit had been organized in secrecy. Hill had been visiting Tokyo and flew to South Korea and then on to Pyongyang on a small jet. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice informed regional allies Japan and South Korea just before Hill's departure from Tokyo. Not to be confused with PyeongChang. ... Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. ...

Publication(s)

• "The geopolitical implications of enlargement". In Jan Zielonka (ed.), Europe unbound -- Enlarging and reshaping the boundaries of the European Union. (Routledge, 2002).

References

• "Notable Former Volunteers / Foreign Service". Peace Corps official site. Accessed 5 January 2007.

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External links

• State Department profile
• The Beijing Accord and the Future of the Six-Party Talks Christopher Hill's comments at U.S. Institute of Peace, September 2005 (Audio)
• Washington Post Profile
• Speech at the University of Chicago in April 2006 at Chicago Society's "China and the Future of the World" conference
• Peace Corps Biography of Christopher R. Hill