PERSON: Gillian Turner

Correspondent

Gillian Turner currently serves a dual role as anchor and State Department and foreign policy correspondent on Fox News Channel (FNC). She joined the network as a contributor in 2014 and is based in Washington.
In her position, Turner covers international and domestic issues at the U.S. State Department. Throughout her tenure with the network, she has frequently served as a substitute anchor on several news programs, including Fox News Sunday, Special Report, America’s Newsroom and America Reports.

Prior to joining the network, Turner also worked at the White House National Security Council during the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Under the Obama Administration, she served as the acting director for legislative affairs at the National Security Council and liaised between the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives on foreign policy and national security issues. During the Bush Administration, Turner served as a research assistant in the Office of the National Security Adviser and was one of the youngest recipients to receive the National Security Council Outstanding Service Award.

Turner has worked at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; the U.S. House of Representatives in the Office of the Minority Leader; the Albright Group, LLC and Jones Group International, a global strategy firm, working directly with former National Security Adviser Jim Jones. She was also a Sharp Fellow at Columbia University.

Turner holds a Master’s degree in African security studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and graduated cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in comparative politics.

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