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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Fiona
Hill</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> was born in October 1965 in Bishop
Auckland, United Kingdom. She is a British-American foreign affairs specialist
and academic. She is a former official at the U.S. National Security Council
specializing in Russian and European affairs. She was a witness in the November
2019 House hearings regarding the impeachment inquiry during the first
impeachment of Donald Trump.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Clifford
Gaddy</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> was born on 21 June 1946. He is an
economist specializing in Russia and was a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy
program^s Center on the United States and Europe. He is the co-author of Bear
Traps on Russia’s Road to Modernization. His earlier books include Russia’s
Virtual Economy and The Siberian Curse. and Russia^s Addiction: The Political Economy
of Resource Dependence.</span></p>

