Alice C. Hill

Alice Hill is the David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work at CFR focuses on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change. Hill previously served as special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff where she led the development of national policy to build resilience to catastrophic risks, including climate change and biological threats. Her coauthored book, Building a Resilient Tomorrow, was published in 2019. In 2020, Yale University and the Op-Ed Project awarded her the Public Voices Fellowship on the Climate Crisis. Hill’s new book, The Fight For Climate After COVID-19, will be published in summer 2021.

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U.S. Voters Disenfranchised by Climate Change

Electoral planning needs to envision increasingly severe extremes that disrupt the casting and counting of ballots

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Building for Heat

Heat waves are taking lives, draining rivers, parching crops, and motivating efforts to adapt to climate change

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The Policy Challenge of Extreme Heat and Climate Change

Health threats in a hotter world require policy action at every level of political and social life

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Hottest Cities

How global health is changing as temperatures inch up