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Alice Hill is a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where she conducts research on catastrophic global threats, particularly focusing on climate change, national security, and infrastructure resilience. She brings an uncommon blend of experience to her academic work, having served as a federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to the president, and senior director for the National Security Council. At the White House, she led the development of policy regarding national security and climate change, building climate resilience considerations into international development and other federal initiatives.
Hill earned her BA in history and economics from Stanford University, followed by a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Her early legal career included serving as chief of the major frauds division in California's central district of the US Attorney's Office, where she supervised over thirty prosecutors handling white-collar crime. She then served as a judge and supervising judge within the Los Angeles Superior Court before taking on roles at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Council.
Hill's research focuses on the intersection of climate change and national security, with particular emphasis on infrastructure resilience, disaster preparedness, and risk management. Her work bridges the gap between scientific understanding of climate risks and practical policy implementation, addressing governance, financing, and cross-sector coordination needed to address catastrophic threats. She has identified seven key strategies for developing climate-resilient infrastructure and has warned about trillion-dollar economic risks posed by single catastrophic events in an era of climate change.
Hill has received several prestigious awards for her work, including:
- John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement from the Department of Justice
- Meta-Leader of the Year award from Harvard University's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
- President's Award from the National Institute of Building Sciences
In addition to her research at Hoover, Hill serves as a life member on the Council of Foreign Relations and is expected to publish a new book on climate resilience with Oxford University Press. She has led development of important partnerships including the Hoover/Stanford Woods Institute/Wilson Center Partnership and the Hoover/Aspen Institute Roundtable on Climate and National Security. Her work brings together experts from diverse fields including physical and social science, engineering, policy, finance, and education to address complex challenges of building resilience to climate impacts.
