Academic expertise should never be limited by who you happen to know

Every year, thousands of Master's dissertations and doctoral theses require an external examiner. In most institutions, finding one still depends on a supervisor recalling a colleague, an outdated CV, or a chain of emails across time zones.

Meanwhile, highly qualified academics many with decades of examination experience remain invisible outside their immediate networks, simply because there is no central, credible place to present that expertise.

GAEN closes that gap. It gives academics a structured, verifiable professional record and gives institutions a searchable, trustworthy network of examiners across disciplines, countries and continents.