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IREX Alumnus Sworn in as Head of USAID's Europe and Eurasia Bureau

November 2001

Dr. Kent R. Hill was sworn in Tuesday, November 6, 2001, as the Assistant Administrator of the Europe and Eurasia Bureau for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). In this position Dr. Hill will oversee USAID missions and programs in 29 countries from the Balkans to Central Asia, including all of the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Through IREX's US-USSR Exchange of Graduate Students & Young Faculty program, Dr. Hill traveled to Russia in 1978-79, where he researched the life and studies of the nineteenth-century Russian philosopher Lev Shestov. Since then Dr. Hill has worked as a Russian studies college professor, served as president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC (1986-1992), and most recently served as president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts (1992-2001).

Dr. Hill graduated from Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho. He received his Masters of Arts in Russian Studies and his PhD in history from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has authored more than 50 articles and reviews on topics such as the Soviet Union, Russia, human rights, religion in Communist countries, Russian intellectual history, and Marxism.

Information courtesy of USAID. For more information on USAID, see www.usaid.gov.

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