Jennifer Turner Director, China Environment Forum
Jennifer Turner has been the director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center for 23 years where she creates meetings, exchanges and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy and green civil society issues. Between 2010 and 2020 she led the Wilson Center’s Global Choke Point Initiative. Working together with Circle of Blue, she co-produced multimedia reports, films, and convened on water-energy-food confrontations in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. She is overseeing the launch of three new projects: (1) Cultivating U.S.-China Leadership on Climate and Food; (2) Vulnerable Deltas, exploring climate, pollution, and development threats to deltas in Southeast Asia and China; and (3) Plastic Pipeline, an educational video game on reducing plastic pollution leakages. Jennifer serves as Senior Editor for the Wilson Center’s InsightOut publication and the China Environment Forum column on the New Security Beat blog. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in China.