Jill Dougherty is an award-winning journalist and one of the world's foremost experts on Russia and the region. She served as CNN's Moscow Bureau Chief for nearly a decade, with other postings including White House Correspondent, Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the U.S. State Department, U.S. Affairs Editor, and Managing Editor of CNN International, Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong.
 

She currently serves as a CNN on-air Contributor, commenting on Russia-related issues; an Affiliated Scholar at Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies; a Distinguished Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and a Fellow at the Kennan Institute. Her research on Russia and the media has taken her to the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn, Estonia.
 

Dougherty is the author of My Russia: What I Saw from the Kremlin, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Politico, the Wilson Quarterly, the Washington Post, CNN, and other publications. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Affairs Council. She has been a familiar face to CNN viewers since 1983.