About Fiona Hill

About Fiona Hill

Trained as a Near Eastern archaeologist and a teaching Anthropologist, Almanar Consultancy Owner/Manager Dr Fiona Hill is well known today as a pioneering culture-in-commerce mediator, communicator, and strategic thinker for the Arab region.

As an educator, Fiona has an outstanding ability to expand clients’ knowledge and skill in building and maintaining Arab region relationships. As a businessperson, Fiona’s briefings accurately address clients’ specific objectives by presenting broad contexts backed up by relevant case studies and a set of governing principles against which to calibrate strategic planning and marketing.

Fiona Hill has extensive firsthand professional experience and networks in Libya, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and the UAE, and specialises in Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Awards

Fanny Reading Award for Middle Eastern Research (University of Melbourne)

Endeavour Executive Award 2008 (spent as ‘observer’ at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry) endeavour.deewr.gov.au

Associations

Honorary Associate in the School of History, Heritage & Society at Deakin University

Associate Member, Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI) www.austarab.com.au

Fiona served for nearly a decade on the inaugural executive of the Australian Arabic Council (AAC) – Australia’s peak public advocacy body for Arab Australians – and served on the inaugural Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR) www.dfat.gov.au from 2002 – 2008.

President, Friends of Syria/ Australia

Co-Investigator, “Australia-Syria Archaeological & Historical Research Collaboration Project” between University of Melbourne and Syria’s Ministry of Culture and the Office of the First Lady.