Adam Fejerskov heads the Sustainable Development and Governance Research Unit at DIIS and is an expert on contemporary political relations between the Global South and North. His work explores the terrains and ramifications of contemporary global inequalities and reconfigurations of North-South geopolitics. 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. 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.