Jamie Kwong

Jamie Kwong is a fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on nonproliferation issues, the Korean Peninsula, and multilateral regimes, including the P5 Process and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. She has also conducted novel research on the climate change-nuclear weapons nexus and authored the Carnegie paper, How Climate Change Challenges the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent. 

Previously, Kwong was a research assistant at the Centre for Science and Security Studies, working on projects related to the P5 Process, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and transatlantic deterrence. She also worked in the Nuclear Policy Programme at the Royal United Services Institute on projects related to strategic stability, disarmament verification, and the UK Project on Nuclear Issues. Before completing her studies, she interned with the U.S. State Department’s International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau and the Central Intelligence Agency. Her analysis has been published in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Nonproliferation Review, among others.

Kwong holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. Her dissertation examined U.S. public opinion of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and was awarded the King’s College London Doctoral Studies Outstanding Thesis Prize. She holds an MA in Public Diplomacy and BA in International Relations from the University of Southern California, where she served as a Korean Studies Institute Fellow.