Kent Hill, Ph.D.

Kent Hill is responsible for creating research and educational initiatives that engage fundamental questions regarding the nature, development, and benefits of the virtues and character strengths. He is also responsible for the religious freedom portfolio.

Before joining the Foundation, he served for more than seven years in senior administrative positions at the United States Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. He also served for nine years as president of Eastern Nazarene College and six years as president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.

Hill received his B.A. in history from Northwest Nazarene College and an M.A. in Russian Studies from the University of Washington, where he also received his Ph.D. in history. He is the author of The Soviet Union on the Brink (1991) and has written and spoken widely on international development, democracy, human rights, and religious freedom.