Jamie Kwong was a 2016 Schaeffer Fellow at the University of Southern California interning for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Asia Pacific Sub-Committee. While at USC, she also interned with the State Department International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau and the Central Intelligence Agency. Jamie graduated in 2018 with a Bachelors in International Relations and Master of Public Diplomacy. She holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar, a prestigious scholarship funding graduate study in the UK.
Jamie’s 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. During her PhD, she 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 Program at the Royal United Services Institute on projects related to strategic stability, disarmament verification, and the UK Project on Nuclear Issues.
Currently, Jamie 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. Her analysis has been published in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Nonproliferation Review.
“”It has been a privilege to experience firsthand the lasting impact the Schaeffer Fellows program has had over the last ten years. From Fellow to mentor to advisory board member, I’ve had a unique vantage point in seeing the program grow and support more than 400 students – not just to secure a summer internship, but to thoughtfully explore and develop the skills and experiences needed to pursue careers dedicated to public service.”