Jill Dougherty is the foreign affairs correspondent for CNN. Based in the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau, Dougherty previously served as U.S. affairs editor for CNN International, a role in which she covered political, cultural and business stories in the United States for CNN’s international network.

Before that, Dougherty was managing editor of CNN International Asia Pacific. Based at the network’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong, she oversaw the regional news and feature programming produced in Hong Kong and coordinated CNN’s newsgathering across the Asia Pacific region.

Dougherty, who joined CNN in 1983, was previously CNN’s Moscow bureau chief, named to that post in 1997. She has covered many significant news events in Russia and the former Soviet Union for CNN, including the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s post-Soviet economic transition, the Beslan school massacre, the conflict in Chechnya, the arrest and trial of Yukos Oil company founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Georgia’s Rose Revolution and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.