Taylor Jackson

PhD Candidate
taylorj.jackson@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • International Relations
  • Public Policy

Areas of Interest

International Organizations; Great Power Competition; Global Public Policy

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • International Relations

Working Dissertation

Title

Contesting the Institutional Order: How States Internally Contest Intergovernmental Organizations, When They are Successful, and Why it Matters

Supervisors

Philip Lipscy

Biography

Taylor Jackson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His dissertation research focuses on how states contest international organizations from within. His ongoing work also examines state power within the international institutional order, as well as gender- and race-based inequities among leaders of international organizations. Taylor holds a BA and MA in Political Science from Simon Fraser University, in addition to an MA (Honors) in International Economics and International Political Economy from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to his PhD, Taylor served as a Senior Advisor to Ontario’s Minister of Finance and he has worked for several think tanks in Canada and the United States.

Education

MA (Honors), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
MA, Simon Fraser University
BA, Simon Fraser University

Cohort

  • 2021-2022