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Research & Updates
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May 2014
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Jack Norris, Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Date
May 20, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2014
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Jacob Hacker, Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Stanley B. Resor Professor Political Science, Yale University
Date
July 25, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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August 2015
Title
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
Content Type
August 2014
March 2013
Title
Jane Hunter, Managing Director, and Rebecca Lawrence, Publisher, Faculty of 1000
Date
March 15, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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June 2012
Title
Jane Long, Associate Director at Large, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date
June 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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June 2015
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2014
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
October 15, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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October 2015
Title
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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May 2016
Title
Jared Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Date
May 24, 2016
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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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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March 2013
Title
Jason Priem, Co-Founder, Impact Story
Date
March 13, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Jay Neal, Executive Director of Georgia’s Office of Transition, Support and Re-entry; former Representative in Georgia State House of Representatives
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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February 2017
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Jaya Bhumitra, International Director of Corporate Outreach, and Sharon Nuñez Gough, Executive Director, Animal Equality
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Jeff Settleman, Michael Fischbach, Adam Marblestone
Date
February 28, 2014
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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September 2013
Title
Jennifer Olsen, Manager, Pandemics, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Date
September 23, 2013
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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August 2012
Title
Jimmy Volmink, Director of the South African Cochrane Center
Date
August 17, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2012
Title
Jo Mulligan, Research and Evidence Division, Department for International Development
Date
October 10, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Date
September 16, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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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
June 2013
Title
Jocelyn Wyatt, Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
Date
June 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2014
Title
Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 15, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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February 2017
Title
Joe Coon, Kristie De Peña, Matthew La Corte, and Andrew Mills, Niskanen Center
Date
February 14, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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July 2016
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Joe Coon, Kristie De Peña, Matthew La Corte, Andrew Mills, and Will Wilkinson, Niskanen Center
Date
July 22, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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December 2015
Title
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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April 2012
Title
John Baez, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of California
Date
April 18, 2012
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Other Areas
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September 2013
Title
John Fawcett, Global Legislative Director, RESULTS
Date
September 03, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2012
Title
John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
Date
June 11, 2012
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Other Areas
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August 2013
Title
John Kappenman, Owner, Storm Analysis Consultants
Date
August 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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March 2013
Title
John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks
Date
March 25, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2013
Title
Jon Bockman, Executive Director, Effective Animal Activism (EAA)
Date
July 12, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2013
Title
Jonathan Cohn, Dana Goldstein, Chris Hughes, Richard Kim, Mike Konczal, Dylan Matthews, Dayo Olopade, Andrew Revkin, Reihan Salam and Michael Waldman
Date
May 02, 2013
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
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February 2014
Title
Joseph Gagnon, Senior Fellow; former Associate Director at the Division of International Finance and Senior Economist, US Federal Reserve Board
Date
February 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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February 2017
Title
Josh Balk, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
February 09, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Josh Bivens, Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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August 2017
Title
Josh Morrison, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
Date
August 25, 2017
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Other Areas
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October 2016
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Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, WaitList Zero
Date
October 20, 2016
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Other Areas
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April 2016
Title
Josh Morrison, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Waitlist Zero
Date
April 25, 2016
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Other Areas
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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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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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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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March 2013
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Joshua Greenberg, Program Director, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Date
March 13, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2013
Title
Joshua Reichert, Executive Vice President and Beth Murdock, Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
September 24, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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October 2013
Title
Julie Samuels, Senior Staff Attorney, Peter Eckersley, Technology Projects Director, Daniel Nazer, Staff Attorney, and Adi Kamdar, Activist
Date
October 15, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
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June 2013
Title
Justin Wolfers, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Date
June 25, 2013
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2013
Title
Kaitlin Thaney, Manager, External Relationships, Digital Science
Date
April 10, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Kathleen Newland, Co-Founder, Migration Policy Institute
Date
April 02, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
February 2013
Title
Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center
Date
February 19, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
September 2012
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Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
September 14, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2012
Title
Kay Dickersin, Director of the U.S. Cochrane Center and the Eyes and Vision Review Group, U.S. Satellite
Date
July 09, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
February 2013
Title
Ken Witwer, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Date
February 28, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Ken Zimmerman, Director of US Programs, and Leonard Noisette, Director of the Justice Fund for US Programs, Open Society Foundations
Date
July 26, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Kevin Dolby, Evaluation Adviser, Wellcome Trust
Date
May 24, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
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
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Kevin Moses, Director of Science Funding, Wellcome Trust
Date
June 07, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2013
Title
Kimberly Elliott, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2013
Title
Kirsten Zickfeld, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Date
April 17, 2013
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Other Areas
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April 2013
Title
Klaus Keller, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University
Date
April 18, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
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June 2017
Title
Kristie De Peña, Immigration Policy Counsel, and Matthew La Corte, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 22, 2017
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology and Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought, University of California at San Diego
Date
October 08, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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June 2012
Title
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard University
Date
June 18, 2012
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
December 2013
Title
Larry Kramer, President and Daniel Stid, Senior Fellow
Date
December 06, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Laurence Ball, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
April 17, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
November 2016
Title
Leah Garces, Executive Director, and Dawn Rotheram, Development Director, Compassion in World Farming USA
Date
November 08, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Leah Garces, USA Director, Compassion in World Farming
Date
February 26, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
February 2017
Title
Lewis Bollard, Program Officer, Farm Animal Welfare, Open Philanthropy Project
Date
February 23, 2017
Focus Area
History of Philanthropy
Content Type
November 2012
Title
Linda Frey, Program Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Date
November 19, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Lisa Walsh, Partner and Chris Addy, Manager, The Bridgespan Group
Date
July 22, 2013
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Other Areas
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November 2015
Title
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 2016
Title
Marc Jarsulic, Vice President, Economic Policy, and Michael Madowitz, Economics, Center for American Progress
Date
November 17, 2016
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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January 2014
Title
Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health
Date
January 29, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
February 2015
Title
Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program
Date
February 02, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Margie Peden, Coordinator, Unintentional Injury Prevention, World Health Organization
Date
August 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2015
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affair
Date
February 13, 2015
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Date
November 12, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA School of Public Affairs
Date
July 02, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Mark Lim, Program Manager, Medical Research Innovation, FasterCures
Date
May 30, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2015
Title
Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology and Chair of Physiology, Maastricht University
Date
March 24, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Mark Schmitt, Senior Fellow, The Roosevelt Institute
Date
May 22, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2013
Title
Mark Steinmeyer, Senior Program Officer, Smith Richardson Foundation
Date
September 10, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
March 2013
Title
Mark Wilson, CEO, David Tovey, Editor-in-Chief, and Kay Dickersin, Director, The Cochrane Collaboration
Date
March 05, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2015
Title
Mark Wilson, CEO; David Tovey, Editor in Chief; Kathelene Weiss, Trusts and Foundations Fundraiser
Date
April 30, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2012
Title
Martin Burton, Director of the UK Cochrane Center
Date
September 06, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
May 2013
Title
Maryann Martone, Executive Director, Force11,
Date
May 30, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Matt Baker, Environment Program Officer, The Hewlett Foundation
Date
August 08, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
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May 2012
Title
Matt Bannick, Paula Goldman, Tie Kim, Bill Barmeier, Will Fitzpatrick, and Todor Tashev, Omidyar Network
Date
May 16, 2012
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Matt Stoller, Former Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
August 27, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
February 2015
Title
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
Content Type
August 2014
Title
Micah Manary, MD/PhD Student, University of California, San Diego and scientific advisor to GiveWell
Date
August 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
January 21, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
April 21, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
November 2013
Title
Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2012
Title
Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, Novim
Date
July 01, 2012
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2012
Title
Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist, Climate Institute
Date
May 18, 2012
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota
Date
July 30, 2013
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
August 2012
Title
Michael Rosenfeld, Professor, Stanford University
Date
August 21, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
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
Content Type
July 2014