Adam Fejerskov studies the terrains and ramifications of contemporary global inequalities. He examines how inequalities flow from and are manifested in a diverse cast of issues, from emerging technology, science and knowledges to humanitarianism and aspirations of global development. Adam is interested in how global and local politics and relations are shaped by imaginaries of progress and future. He is the author of Good Will Corrupting (2025, MIT Press), The Global Lab (2022, Oxford UP), Can new Technology save the world? (2021, Informations Forlag), Damned Progress (2020, Gyldendal), Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance: The Delusion of Norm Diffusion (Palgrave, 2019), and The Gates foundation’s Rise to Power (2018, Routledge).

Adam is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Progress in Development Studies and the Danish journal Samfundsøkonomen. He sits on the Development Policy Council (appointed by the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy), the Danish Emergency Relief Fund, in EADI’s Executive Committee, and on the advisory board of several international journals. Adam's research has been funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, FFU, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, NordForsk and others.