Ian Hill (diplomat)

{{Short description|New Zealand diplomat}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{BLP sources|date=April 2013}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = His Excellency

| name = Ian Hill

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| image =

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| order =

| ambassador_from = New Zealand

| country = Russia

| term_start = April 2016

| term_end = January 2020

}}

File:Dmitry Medvedev with Ian Alexander Hill.jpg

Ian Alexander Hill was a New Zealand diplomat with the [https://www.mfat.govt.nz/ New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade] (MFAT). He was the New Zealand Ambassador to Russia, having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/next-ambassador-russia-announced|title=Next Ambassador to Russia announced|last=McCully|first=Murray|authorlink=Murray McCully|date=2 November 2015|website=beehive.govt.nz.|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 November 2018}}

Hill is also accredited to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1511/S00012/next-ambassador-to-russia-announced.htm|title=Next Ambassador to Russia announced|last=|first=|date=2 November 2015|website=Scoop|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 November 2018}} Previous to his current appointment, Mr. Hill was the Divisional Manager- Europe in the New Zealand MFAT from 2012 to 2016. Hill also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington D.C. (2004-2009), and in earlier assignments as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Tonga, and in New Zealand diplomatic missions in London and Fiji. Mr Hill was also the Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Adviser in Wellington from 1993 to 1995.{{Cite web|url=http://mir.uzreport.uz/news_e_58490.html|title=New Zealand appoint new ambassador to Uzbekistan|last=|first=|date=19 March 2009|website=UzReport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630055924/http://mir.uzreport.uz/news_e_58490.html|archive-date=30 June 2016|access-date=25 November 2018}}

Hill completed his master's degree in history at the [http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ University of Canterbury] in 1979. His thesis was titled "The Twilight of the Augustan Repose: Workings of Hanoverian politics, 1754-1757."{{Cite web|url=https://ipac.canterbury.ac.nz/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=a&ri=&index=BIB&term=101158|title=The twilight of the Augustan repose : workings of Hanoverian politics, 1754-1757. - University of Canterbury Library Catalogue|last=|first=|date=|website=ipac.canterbury.ac.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=25 November 2018}}