Jan Eijking (Balliol 2019) is the host and producer of Global Shocks, a new podcast series launched by the Changing Global Orders programme at the Oxford Martin School.
Dr Eijking is a postdoctoral research fellow on the Changing Global Orders programme at the Oxford Martin School (affiliated with the Department of Politics and International Relations and the History Faculty), which investigates how international organisations cope with and adapt to turbulence and major global shocks.
As part of the Changing Global Orders programme’s public outreach, Dr Eijking is leading a podcast and oral history project (with the support of Patricia Clavin and award-winning audio producer Melissa FitzGerald of Zinc Media) called ‘Global Shocks’, which deals with how international organisations learn from and adapt to major crises and periods of turbulence.
In a world facing multiple overlapping crises and wars, understanding how existing international institutions can tackle mounting global challenges is more crucial than ever. As the host and producer of Global Shocks, Dr Eijking enters the conversation with leading figures from the world’s major international organisations such as the World Health Organisation to find out what lessons they draw from the past and what future prospects they have.
In the first episode, he speaks to humanitarian leader Yves Daccord, former Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, who shares his first-hand experience about how the ICRC dealt with humanitarian crises in Yemen, how social media affects the work of ICRC staff, and how 9/11 has affected the work of Red Cross organisations around the world.