Merijn Oudenampsen is a political scientist, specialized in the study of political ideas. For his PhD, he studied the ideas behind the rise of right-wing populism in the Netherlands. It was published as The Rise of the Dutch New Right (Routledge, 2021) and won the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award. Together with the historian Bram Mellink he wrote the book Neoliberalisme: Een Nederlandse Geschiedenis, which traces the history of neoliberalism in the Netherlands all the way back to the 1930s. He writes a column for the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer and is based in Amsterdam.