Jennifer Turner is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub.

For twenty-five years, Turner directed the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum (CEF), building it into a go-to resource for convening policy, business, research, and nongovernmental-organization practitioners on China’s energy, water, food, and climate challenges and how they connect to US interests. In 2022 she launched CEF’s newest US-China climate initiative, Cool Agriculture, which dug into drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from food and recommended areas of cooperation to mitigate these food-related emissions at national and subnational levels.

Turner recently led the implementation of other CEF initiatives, including “China’s Role in Promoting the Clean Energy Transition in the Global South,” which produced analysis on China’s impact on low-carbon development in low and middle income countries, and “Vulnerable Deltas: Climate, Development and Plastic Pollution Threats to Southeast Asian and Chinese Deltas,” which generated innovative research, dialogues, and learning tools around threats facing Asian river deltas. She also co-produced the Plastic Pipeline educational video game, an engaging tool to raise awareness on policies that could stem the tide of pollution in our oceans.

Turner served as senior editor for the CEF column on the award-winning New Security Beat blog and the InsightOut publication series. She received a PhD in public policy and comparative politics in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in China.