Jan Eijking

Dr. Jan Eijking was an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Changing Global Orders programme and is now Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University . He works on the history of international organizations and international thought. His research concerns the pivotal role of technical experts in shaping and contesting modern international organizations. He is the author of The Technocratic International (OUP, 2026) and the editor of Experts in a Turbulent World (OUP, 2026). As part of the project, Eijking investigated how early international institutions utilized expertise to address health, economic, and food crises. At the Oxford Martin School, he also hosted the Changing Global Orders podcast and oral history collection. Recognized for his scholarly contributions, Eijking has received several prestigious awards, including the 2023 International Studies Association’s Barbara W. Tuchman Prize and the 2025 American Political Science Association’s Merze Tate Award. From 2025 to 2026, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Antwerp. In 2026, he won a European Research Council Starting Grant for a new project on transnational regulation.”