New Global Shocks podcast series

The Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders is proud to announce the launch of our podcast series Global Shocks.

As a part of our public outreach, postdoctoral research fellow Jan Eijking leads this podcast and oral history project with the support of Patricia Clavin and award-winning audio producer Melissa FitzGerald of Zinc Media. Global shocks are all around us: from humanitarian emergencies to war, from financial crises to pandemics. So how can the world’s major international organisations respond to them, adapt to them, and survive such turbulent times? Global Shocks enters the conversation with leading figures from these organisations to find out how they are affected by crisis and turbulence, what lessons they draw from the past, and what future prospects they have.

Global Shocks spans about eight 30-minute episodes released on our website, across our social media channels, as well as on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and all other leading podcast apps from 5 February 2024. Individual episodes include conversations with Yves Daccord, the former Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Renata Dwan of Chatham House, former Chief of Peacekeeping Policy at the United Nations; and Ilona Kickbusch, former leader of the World Health Organisation’s Global Health Promotion Programme.

Full-length recordings will also be made available as an oral history archive collection. 

Find out more and listen here.