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Research & Updates
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April 2014
April 2014
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Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
April 21, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Ben Goldsmith, Executive Director, Farm Forward
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
April 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Dr. Martin Ruhs, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Senior Researcher, Oxford University
Date
April 23, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Tom Hart, U.S. Executive Director, The ONE Campaign
Date
April 24, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Tom Dietterich, Distinguished Professor and Director of Intelligent Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University
Date
April 28, 2014
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Patty Lovera, Assistant Director, Food & Water Watch and Doug Lakey, Director of Development, Food & Water Watch
Date
May 01, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
May 12, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Robert Martin, Program Director, Food System Policy Program, John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Date
May 14, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
Title
David Schleicher, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University
Date
May 15, 2014
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Content Type
May 2014
Title
Jack Norris, Executive Director, Vegan Outreach
Date
May 20, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
May 2014
Title
David Byer, Senior Corporate Liaison, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Date
May 23, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
June 2014
Title
Virginia Clarke, Executive Director, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Date
June 04, 2014
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Michael Wishnie, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education, Yale Law School
Date
July 13, 2014
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative
Date
July 14, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Tracy Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor, Yale Law School
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Daniel Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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July 2014
Title
Anna Bershteyn, Institute for Disease Modeling
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2014
Title
David Kennedy, Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Date
July 17, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
July 2014
Title
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
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Phil Cook, ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Sociology, Duke University
Date
July 29, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
July 2014
Title
Gayle Martin, Senior Economist, World Bank; Program Leader, Service Delivery Indicators (SDI)
Date
July 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2014
Title
David Kamin, Assistant Professor of Law, New York University
Date
August 01, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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August 2014
Title
David Jernigan, Director, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Date
August 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
August 2014
August 2014
Title
Chris Phoenix, Co-Founder and Director of Research, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
Date
August 20, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2014
Title
Adam Marblestone, Director of Scientific Architecting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Synthetic Neurobiology Group (scientific advisor to GiveWell)
Date
August 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
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September 2014
Title
Philip Moriarty, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2014
Title
Centers for Disease Control’s Excessive Alcohol Use Prevention Team (Alcohol Program)
Date
September 05, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Gary Samore, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Date
September 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Erika Gregory, Founding Director, N Square: The Crossroads for Nuclear Security Innovation
Date
September 22, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
September 2014
Title
Richard Jones, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
Date
September 30, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Wendy Barclay, Professor and Chair of Influenza Virology, Imperial College London
Date
October 02, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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October 2014
Title
Scott Sumner, Professor of Economics, Bentley University
Date
October 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Gigi Gronvall, Senior Associate, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Center for Health Security
Date
October 06, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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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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October 2014
Title
Eric Drexler, Academic Visitor, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
October 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Carl Robichaud, Program Officer, International Peace and Security Program, the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
October 14, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
October 15, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Joe Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 15, 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
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
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Date
October 17, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
October 2014
Title
Brian Steensland, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Date
October 24, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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
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
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
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
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
December 2014
Title
D. James Greiner, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Date
December 12, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
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
Focus Area
Other Areas
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
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO, ImmigrationWorks USA
Date
January 14, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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
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
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
Content Type
January 2015
Title
Josh Morrison, Executive Director, Waitlist Zero and Thomas Kelly, President, Waitlist Zero
Date
January 28, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
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
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
Content Type
February 2015
Title
Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program
Date
February 02, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
February 2015
Title
David Russell, William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology, Cornell University College of Veterinary Science
Date
February 03, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
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
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
February 2015
March 2015
Title
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
Content Type
March 2015
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
Content Type
March 2015
Title
Allison Snow, Professor, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University
Date
March 17, 2015
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
March 2015
Title
Dick M. Carpenter II, Director of Strategic Research, Institute for Justice
Date
March 20, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
March 2015
March 2015
Title
Morris Kleiner, Professor of Labor Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Date
March 23, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
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
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
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
April 2015
Title
A Scientist with 18 Years Experience in the Tissue Engineering Industry
Date
April 23, 2015
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
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
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
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
Content Type
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
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
Date
May 04, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Peter Morin, Professor, Deparment of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University
Date
May 05, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
May 2015
Title
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
Content Type
May 2015
Title
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
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Edward Timmons, Assistant Professor of Economics, Saint Francis University
Date
May 25, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2015
Title
David Udell, Executive Director, National Center for Access to Justice, and Visiting Professor from Practice, Cardozo Law School
Date
May 25, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
May 2015
Title
Dr. Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date
May 27, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Scott Sumner, Director, Program on Monetary Policy, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Date
June 03, 2015
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
June 2015
June 2015
Title
David Bier, Immigration Policy Analyst, Niskanen Center
Date
June 05, 2015
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Diana Shineman, Director for Scientific Affairs, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation
Date
June 08, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
June 2015
Title
A Conversation with Members of the Effective Altruists of Berkeley at UC Berkeley – a Student Group –
Date
June 19, 2015
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Content Type
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
Content Type
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
Content Type
June 2015
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
June 25, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2015
Title
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
Content Type
June 2015