Jane Darby Menton

Jane Darby Menton is a fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and director of the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. Her research focuses on the design and implementation of arms control and nonproliferation agreements, with particular emphasis on Iran and East Asia.

Previously, Jane Darby was a research scholar at the UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, where she worked on projects related to technology governance and the future of arms control and served as deputy director of the UC Berkeley Nuclear Policy Working Group. She was also a Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum fellow and a member of the U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group. Her analysis has been published in outlets including Foreign Policy, Lawfare, and CNN. Before that, Jane Darby worked as a journalist at Foreign Affairs and Anderson Cooper 360. 

Jane Darby earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Gates Scholar. Her dissertation focused on U.S.-Iran relations and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. She has an MPhil with distinction in modern Middle Eastern studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a BA in history and global affairs from Yale.