Charles Hill | |
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Born | Morton Charles Hill April 28, 1936 Bridgeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
Died | March 27, 2021 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 84)
Academic background | |
Education | Brown University (BA) University of Pennsylvania (JD, MA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Humanities |
Sub-discipline | Diplomacy Foreign policy Leadership studies Statecraft |
Institutions | Harvard University Cornell University Yale University Hoover Institution |
Charles Hill | |
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10th Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State | |
In office 1983–1985 | |
Preceded by | L. Paul Bremer |
Succeeded by | Nicholas Platt |
Morton Charles Hill (April 28, 1936 – March 27, 2021) was an American diplomat and academic. He served as diplomat-in-residence and lecturer in international studies at Yale University.[1] A career foreign service officer, Hill was a senior adviser to George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations.
At Yale, he taught, along with Paul Kennedy and John Gaddis, the seminar "Studies in Grand Strategy", a rigorous interdisciplinary study of leadership, statecraft and diplomacy. He also taught students enrolled in the directed studies program at Yale.