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Research & Updates
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April 2016
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Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
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April 25, 2016
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Other Areas
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April 2016
April 2016
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Professor Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
April 20, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2016
April 2016
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Dr. George Wright, Professor of Strategy and Organization, University of Strathclyde
Date
April 07, 2016
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Other Areas
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April 2016
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Norman Volk, Former Chair, The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees
Date
April 01, 2016
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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March 2016
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Tamar Jacoby, President & CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
March 31, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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March 2016
March 2016
March 2016
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Philip Tetlock, Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Creator, Good Judgment Project
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March 08, 2016
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Other Areas
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February 2016
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Ady Barkan, Director of Fed Up, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
February 12, 2016
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2016
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Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WaitList Zero
Date
February 05, 2016
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Other Areas
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February 2016
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lea Kenig, Deputy chief development officer, Carnegie
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February 05, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
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Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
January 25, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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January 2016
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Dr. Aaron Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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January 21, 2016
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Scientific Research
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January 2016
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Arti Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law, Duke University, and Co-Director, Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy
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January 06, 2016
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Thoughts on 3-bromopyruvate as a Potential Cancer Treatment by Chris Somerville, Scientific Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project and Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy and EBI Director, University of California, Berkeley
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December 29, 2015
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Joel Hektner, Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University
Date
December 17, 2015
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Other Areas
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December 2015
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Valerie Mizrahi, Director, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town
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December 16, 2015
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
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Dr. Bavesh Kana, Senior Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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December 16, 2015
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Scientific Research
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December 2015
December 2015
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Dr. Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development (CGD) and Cynthia Rathinasamy, Program Coordinator, Migration and Development Team (CGD)
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December 15, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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December 2015
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Dr. Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and Kathy Smith, Director, Institutional Advancement, Center for Global Development
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December 15, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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December 2015
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Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Date
December 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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December 2015
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David Bier, Director of Immigration Policy, The Niskanen Center
Date
December 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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December 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of the Fed Up campaign and Co-Director of Local Progress, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
December 08, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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November 2015
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Louis Tay, Assistant Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Purdue University
Date
November 30, 2015
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Other Areas
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November 2015
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Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
November 16, 2015
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Scientific Research
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October 2015
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Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Ben Spielberg, Research Assistant, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
October 21, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2015
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Steve Oh, Phd, Principal Scientist, Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Date
October 07, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2015
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David Alpert, Founder, Greater Greater Washington
Date
October 05, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2015
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Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
Date
September 15, 2015
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Other Areas
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September 2015
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Professor Nestor Kapusta, Associate Professor, Suicide Research Group, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna
Date
September 14, 2015
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Other Areas
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August 2015
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Jacob Steinhardt, Graduate Student in Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University and Science Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
August 19, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
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Alan Durning, Founder and Executive Director, Sightline Institute
Date
August 18, 2015
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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August 2015
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Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
August 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2015
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Peter Gollwitzer, Professor of Psychology, New York University
Date
August 03, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Russell Stewart, PhD Student, Stanford University
Date
July 29, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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July 2015
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Daniel Greene, Researcher, Project for Education Research That Scales and Lytics Lab, Stanford University
Date
July 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Piers Steel, Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Date
July 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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July 2015
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Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
July 08, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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July 2015
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Building Capacity to Promote Freer Global Mobility, a CGD-Open Philanthropy Project Workshop
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July 07, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2015
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Taynin Kopanos, DNP, NP, Vice President of State Government Affairs, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
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June 30, 2015
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Other Areas
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June 2015
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Dr. Allison DeFoor, Chairman, Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ), and Deborrah Brodsky, Director, PAJ
Date
June 26, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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June 2015
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Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
June 25, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2015
Title
Angela Geiger, Chief Strategy Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, and Dr. Dean Hartley, Director of Science Initiatives, Alzheimer’s Association
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2015
Title
A conversation with staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
June 23, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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June 2015
Title
A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
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June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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June 2015
Title
Diana Shineman, Director for Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
Date
June 08, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2015
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David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2015
June 2015
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Scott Sumner, Director, Program on Monetary Policy, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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June 2015
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Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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May 2015
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Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
May 27, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
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David Udell, Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice, and Visiting Professor from Practice, Cardozo Law School
Date
May 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Edward Timmons, Assistant Professor of Economics, Saint Francis University
Date
May 25, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Barak Richman, Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration, Duke University School of Law
Date
May 22, 2015
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Other Areas
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May 2015
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Ady Barkan, Campaign Director of Fed Up, and Co-Director of Local Progress, the Center for Popular Democracy
Date
May 14, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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May 2015
Title
Peter Morin, Professor, Deparment of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Date
May 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2015
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Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
May 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
Title
Paul Christiano, PhD Student, Theory of Computing Group, University of California at Berkeley
Date
May 02, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2015
Title
David Holtzman, Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Prof. and Chairman of Neurology; Prof. of Developmental Biology; and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Date
May 01, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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April 2015
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Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Date
April 30, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2015
Title
Bruce Miller, A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco
Date
April 28, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2015
Title
Michael Webb, PhD Candidate in Economics, Stanford University and Research Associate, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Date
April 03, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2015
Title
Kevin Esvelt, Technology Development Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Date
March 31, 2015
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2015
Title
Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology and Chair of Physiology, Maastricht University
Date
March 24, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2015
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Morris Kleiner, Professor of Labor Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Date
March 23, 2015
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Other Areas
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March 2015
March 2015
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Dick M. Carpenter II, Director of Strategic Research, Institute for Justice
Date
March 20, 2015
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Other Areas
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March 2015
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Allison Snow, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University
Date
March 17, 2015
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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March 2015
Title
Dena Dubal, Assistant Professor of Neurology and David Coulter Endowed Chair in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of California, San Francisco
Date
March 10, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2015
March 2015
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Anna Upton, PhD, Director Biology, TB Alliance; Kari Frame, Senior Manager, Resource Mobilization, TB Alliance; Willo Brock, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, TB Alliance; Nader Fotouhi, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, TB Alliance
Date
March 04, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2015
February 2015
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Melanie Smith, PhD in biophysics, MD Candidate, University of California, San Francisco; Scientific Advisor, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
February 17, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2015
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Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affair
Date
February 13, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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February 2015
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David Russell, William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology, Cornell University College of Veterinary Science
Date
February 03, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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February 2015
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Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program
Date
February 02, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
February 2015
Title
Jasen Murray and Others, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Date
February 01, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2015
Title
Christine Sizemore, Section Chief, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Other Microbial Diseases Section, National Institutes of Health
Date
January 29, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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January 2015
Title
Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero and Thomas Kelly, President, Waitlist Zero
Date
January 28, 2015
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Other Areas
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January 2015
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Beau Kilmer, Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center and Professor, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School
Date
January 27, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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January 2015
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Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
January 23, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
January 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
January 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
December 2014
Title
Jeffrey Selbin, Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; Faculty Director, East Bay Community Law Center; Co-Faculty Director, Henderson Center
Date
December 16, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
Title
Rebecca Sandefur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Faculty Fellow, American Bar Association
Date
December 15, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
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D. James Greiner, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Date
December 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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December 2014
Title
Joan Rohlfing, President and Chief Operating Officer, the Nuclear Threat Initiative
Date
December 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
November 2014
Title
A Conversation with Staff from the International Organization for Migration, Protect the People, and the Center for Global Development
Date
November 14, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
November 2014
Title
Robert Einhorn, Senior Fellow, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution
Date
November 10, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
November 2014
Title
Bruce Lowry, Director of Policy and Communications, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Date
November 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
November 2014
Title
Faith Rose, Education Sector Team Manager, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
Date
November 04, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
October 2014
Title
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Date
October 17, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Philip Yun, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Ketternring, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
October 2014