Victoria Jones is pursuing a PhD in International History at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation where she examines soft and sharp power as well as the role of religion in diplomacy, having conducted primary source research in the Himalayas and Kashmir. 

She is also a Subject Matter Expert with NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme where she delivers courses on ideology and extremism to security and defence education institutions around the globe. As a Richard and Susan Hayden Academy Fellow at Chatham House, she carried out fieldwork in Argentina and Kenya to investigate influence campaigns and global perceptions of US leadership. 

Her work has appeared in The Diplomat, Le Monde diplomatique, Inkstick Media, and Foreign Policy, among others.