In this interview, historian Catherine Westfall interviews Hugh Montgomery, Director of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility [JLab]. Montgomery discusses his early education in England, including his experience with the reformed science curriculum introduced by the Nuffield Foundation in the 1960s. He describes undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Manchester, and his subsequent work on the Intersecting Storage Rings at CERN. Montgomery recounts his experience joining Fermilab in 1983 and his transition from research positions to administrative roles, with an extended discussion of the issues he and his family faced relating to nationality, citizenship, and naturalization on moving to the United States. The interview concludes with a discussion of his recruitment and tenure as Director of JLab, and the administrative and cultural differences between the US National Labs.