Jill Dougherty was a CNN Correspondent for over thirty years. She now is a CNN on-air Contributor, reporting and analyzing events in Russia and the region. She was CNN's Moscow Bureau Chief for almost a decade and served as CNN's White House Correspondent, US Affairs Editor, Managing Editor for the Asia/Pacific Region, and Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the US State Department.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She teaches at Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies and has pursued research on Russia and the media as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School and at the International Centre for Defence and Security in Estonia. She writes regularly for CNN.com, and her work has been published in The Atlantic, Politico, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC and speaks fluent Russian.