Jennifer Turner is the coordinator of the China Environment Forum (CEF) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a senior program associate with the Environmental Change and Security Program. The China Environment Forum (CEF) works to facilitate dialogue among U.S. and Chinese scholars, policymakers, and nongovernmental organizations on environmental and energy challenges in China. Besides putting on meetings and publications focusing on a variety of energy and environmental challenges facing China, she has coordinated several exchange activities in China, the United States, and Japan- bringing together Chinese, U.S., Japanese, and other Asian experts on issues of environmental nongovernmental organizations, environmental journalism, river basin governance, water conflict resolution, and municipal financing of environmental infrastructure. She also serves as editor of the Wilson Center's annual journal, the China Environment Series.

Her most recent publications include a co-authoring (with Kenji Otsuka) of a Wilson Center report: Reaching Across the Water: International Cooperation Promoting Sustainable River Basin Governance in China and a co-authoring (with Lü Zhi)of “Building a Green Civil Society in China” State of the World (2006). Washington, D.C. Worldwatch Institute.

Dr. Turner received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1997. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in the People’s Republic of China. Her current research focuses on environmental civil society and water resources protection issues in China. She holds a bachelor's degree in German and Russian from the University of Illinois.