Dr. Jennifer L. Turner

Jennifer L. Turner is coordinator the China Environment Forum, and senior project associate of the Environmental Change and Security Project (ECSP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Since 1994, the ECSP has explored the connections between major challenges such as population growth, water scarcity, forced migration, degraded ecosystems, and pandemic disease and their links to conflict, human insecurity and foreign policy. Ms. Turner earned her Ph.D. in public policy and comparative politics from Indiana University, and her Chinese Language Certificate from Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Ms. Turner is a scholar of China and environmental policy in the U.S. and Asia. She has taught at two universities in China in addition to Winthrop University in South Carolina and Indiana University where she was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Award and Outstanding Instructor Award, respectively.