Fiona Hill 

Owner, Arab Region Cultural Champion
PhD Social Anthropology, BA Arabic, Islamic Studies, and Archaeology of the Near East

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 For three decades Fiona has been supporting commercial, government, and community

 engagement with the countries of Arabia, the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. 

 Fiona served a decade on the Executive of the Australian Arabic Council, six years as a Councilor on the

 Council for Australia-Arab Relations (CAAR), and a decade on the Victoria Chapter Committee of the Australia Arab Camber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI) for which she served two terms as State Chair & Board Member

Fiona has worked extensively in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, and Senegal.

Having worked on the creation and implementation of the first mentored UAE and Oman Government supported tertiary scholarship programs to Australia, Fiona continues to promote the benefits of Arab cultural learning, including Arabic language learning, and to advocate on behalf of Arabic background secondary and tertiary students in Australia.

Fiona Hill is best known for her pioneering projects which have included:

• The first ever non-Arab, non-Muslim Australian Professional Women Delegation to Saudi Arabia under Royal Protocol. 

• Australian Professional Women Delegations to Syria, and to Kuwait

• Australian Business Women Delegations to the UAE, and to Oman

• Australian Women in the Arts Visit to Tunisia

• The first official Australian Scouts visit to the Sultanate of Oman (the first troop visit to any Arab country)

• Islamic World Discovery Project curriculum resources for Australian primary and secondary school teachers

• 'Why Arabic is Great' Seminars for students at the UAE Higher Colleges

• Annual 'Opening the Door to the Arab World' Keynotes promoting Arabic language learning to Victorian secondary students.

Fiona received an Australian Endeavour Executive Award to spend three months as Observer at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and was granted the internationally contested Asia Institute Graduate Community Award for 3 decades of voluntary service to Australian-Arab relations, and received an Order of Merit from the Victorian Multicultural Commission.

The Saudi Arabia Student Association of Victoria presented Fiona Hill with awards for her work in guiding and coaching Australian University Faculty and Admin Staff in creating optimum outcomes for Arab region international students.

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Saudization Update, Al Manakh 2

 

Cultural Heritage Preservation in Syria & Iraq

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Conscious Cultural Heritage