Member Reception with Ambassador Chris Hill

FREE For Former, Current, and Prospective Members!

After more than a year of online engagement, we are excited to bring the WorldDenver community together in person again. Join us for an evening reception with former, current, and prospective members! Enjoy networking and refreshments on the beautiful Dorsey & Whitney patio as we hear from Ambassador Christopher Hill on foreign affairs under the Biden Administration. Learn about new and upcoming WorldDenver programs and how to get involved this fall!

Make a donation of $100 or more to support WorldDenver's mission and receive a signed copy of Ambassador Hill's book! (Donation option available at registration.)

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About Our Speaker

Christopher Hill
U.S. Ambassador (ret.) and George W. Ball Adjunct Professor, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs

Ambassador Christopher Hill, who served 33 years in the U.S. foreign service and led the University of Denver’s school of international affairs for another seven, joined SIPA’s faculty as George W. Ball Adjunct Professor in early 2021.

Over his long career, Hill was at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy in multiple regions, including as ambassador to Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Poland, and Macedonia.

As assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Hill led U.S. efforts to end North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, which induced North Korea to catalogue its nuclear activities and freeze and disable its plutonium production in 2008-2009.

Other career highlights include Hill’s service as U.S. envoy in negotiations that ended the Kosovo war in 1999, and before that as a leading negotiator who helped forge the agreement that ended the Bosnian war in 1995.

“Ambassador Hill’s extraordinary foreign policy experience will be of tremendous benefit to our students and intellectual community,” wrote Dean Merit E. Janow in a message to the SIPA community. “We look forward to welcoming him to SIPA this spring.”

Following his retirement from the State Department, Hill served from 2010 to 2017 as dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. After he stepped down as dean he was until July 2020 the university’s head of global engagement and a professor of the practice of diplomacy.

As the Ball professor, Hill will teach a course on diplomacy and also deliver the annual George W. Ball lecture, among other activities.

Note: As a nonpartisan convener of global affairs programming, WorldDenver provides an unbiased forum for experts, world leaders, diplomats, and representatives from the public and private sectors to share their expertise and views on a broad spectrum of issues that matter to the world. We aim for our events to inspire curiosity and further reading, discussion, and civic engagement among our members and the Denver community on the global issues that we present.