Jan Palmowski has been Secretary-General of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities since its creation in 2016. A contemporary historian, he started his career at the University of Oxford before moving to King’s College London, where he taught European politics and EU integration.
Jan was Head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London (2008-12) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Academic Vice-President at the University of Warwick from 2013 to 2018. He is a Professor at the University of Warwick and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo.
His broader international engagements include membership in the German Science Council’s Strategy Commission (2013-16) and the German Excellence Commission’s joint expert Group (2016-18). He also served on the Humanities panel of the Comparative Expert Assessment of Lithuanian Universities (2018), acting as its co-chair in 2023.
Jan has also been chair of the International Advisory Board of the Université Paris Cité and a member of the Global Advisory Board of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
A frequent commentator for a range of publications (most notably the Times Higher Education and Research Professional), Jan has published extensively about the history of modern and contemporary Europe in his academic capacity. He is currently working on the Europeanisation of research and higher education policy.
