Jay Mens is Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, Ernest May Fellow for History and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and a Middle East Director at Greenmantle LLC, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm. Jay writes regularly on global affairs, past and present, in academic and popular publications. He is currently finishing his first book, an intellectual and diplomatic history of the Israel-Iran Conflict. Jay holds a B.A. in Politics with Double First Class honours and an M.Phil. in History, both from the University of Cambridge. He is fluent in French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi.