Kent Hill is Senior Fellow for Eurasia, Middle East, and Islam at the Religious Freedom Institute and previously served as Executive Director and Director of the Middle East Action Team from September 2016 - May 2019. Hill was Senior Vice President of International Programs for World Vision, U.S., from February 2011 until August 2016. From February 2009 to 2011 he was Vice President of Character Development at the John Templeton Foundation. Hill briefly served as Acting Administrator of the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in January 2009. Hill was the Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health from 2005 until 2009, before which he was Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for
Europe and
Eurasia at USAID. As the latter, he oversaw economic and
humanitarian assistance in 23 nations from the
Balkans to
Central Asia, including all the countries of the former Soviet Union." As described by USAID, Hill is "responsible for a bureau that manages health programs all over the world" with funding in the range of billions of
dollars and "seeks to provide global leadership in the effort to improve the quality, availability, and use of essential health services." As well as political roles, Hill has published books, articles, reviews on human rights, intellectual history, international development, and matters related to religion in the former
Soviet Union. He is a noted expert on democracy, international development policy, human rights, and international religious freedom issues. He has also been an active participant in religious dialogue. and was highly active in
ecumenical relations between the
evangelical-
Protestant Nazarenes and
Roman Catholics. From 1986 to 1992, Hill was president of the
Institute on Religion and Democracy in
Washington, D.C. He also taught European and Russian history at
Seattle Pacific University from 1980 to 1986. ==Education==