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Research & Updates
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June 2013
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Michelle Hutchinson, Executive Director, and Robert Wiblin, Research Director, Giving What We Can
Date
June 19, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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October 2012
Title
Mike Clarke, Co-Founder of the Evidence Aid project
Date
October 26, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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September 2017
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
September 19, 2017
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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January 2014
Title
Mike Konczal, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Date
January 23, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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
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February 2014
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date
February 27, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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February 2016
Title
Milan Vaishnav, Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Lea Kenig, Deputy chief development officer, Carnegie
Date
February 05, 2016
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2015
Title
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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November 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
November 13, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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June 2013
Title
Nancy Birdsall, President, and Todd Moss, Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Date
June 05, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
June 2013
Title
Neil Ruiz, Senior Policy Analyst and Associate Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
Date
June 28, 2013
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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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
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February 2017
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
February 10, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2016
Title
Nick Cooney, Executive Vice President, Mercy for Animals
Date
August 01, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2016
Title
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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July 2013
Title
Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe, Center for Global Development
Date
July 24, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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March 2014
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Patrick Lucey, Policy Program Associate, and Danielle Kehl, Policy Analyst, New America Foundation
Date
March 19, 2014
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Other Areas
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May 2014
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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
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March 2012
Title
Paul Brest, President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Date
March 01, 2012
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Other Areas
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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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August 2012
Title
Paul Garner, Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Review Group
Date
August 13, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
July 2015
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
July 08, 2015
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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April 2014
Title
Paul Haenle, Director, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Date
April 22, 2014
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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July 2016
Title
Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
July 20, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2013
Title
Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection, The Humane Society of the United States
Date
July 15, 2013
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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July 2013
Title
Paula Olsiewski, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Date
July 19, 2013
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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July 2012
Title
Peter Attia, Co-Founder, Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI)
Date
July 31, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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August 2015
Title
Peter Gollwitzer, Professor of Psychology, New York University
Date
August 03, 2015
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Other Areas
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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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July 2014
Title
Peter Wagner, Executive Director, Prison Policy Initiative
Date
July 14, 2014
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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November 2013
Title
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Government Performance Project
Date
November 14, 2013
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
September 2014
Title
Philip Moriarty, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham
Date
September 03, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2012
Title
Philip Rasch, Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Date
May 22, 2012
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Other Areas
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December 2013
March 2016
Title
Philip Tetlock, Annenberg University Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Co-Creator, Good Judgment Project
Date
March 08, 2016
Focus Area
Other Areas
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February 2014
Title
Philip Tetlock, Professor of Psychology and Management, University of Pennsylvania; Co-leader of the Good Judgment Project
Date
February 12, 2014
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Other Areas
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October 2014
Title
Philip Yun, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Ploughshares Fund
Date
October 16, 2014
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2015
Title
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 2016
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Professor Aaron Sloman, Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
Date
July 03, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
July 2016
Title
Professor Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
Date
July 27, 2016
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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March 2016
September 2019
Title
Professor Anthony Zador, Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date
September 12, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
September 2019
Title
Professor Barak Pearlmutter, Professor of Computer Science, Maynooth University
Date
September 23, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Blake Richards, Assistant Professor in the Montreal Neurological Institute and the School of Computer Science at McGill University
Date
September 20, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
September 2019
Title
Professor Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy and Systems Design Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience, and Director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
Title
Professor David Wolpert, Resident Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute
Date
January 24, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
September 2019
Title
Professor Dong Song, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
Date
September 19, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
Title
Professor E.J. Chichilnisky, John R. Adler Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Eric Jonas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
Date
September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Erik De Schutter, Professor, Computational Neuroscience, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Date
September 17, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2020
Title
Professor Eve Marder, University Professor and Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Date
June 01, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2020
Title
Professor Jared Kaplan, Professor of Physics, Johns Hopkins University
Date
January 23, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2017
Title
Professor Keith Frankish, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
Date
January 24, 2017
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2019
Title
Professor Konrad Kording, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Date
September 11, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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September 2019
Title
Professor Markus Meister, Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
Date
September 24, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2016
Title
Professor Michael Tye, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
Date
August 24, 2016
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
September 2015
Title
Professor Nestor Kapusta, Associate Professor, Suicide Research Group, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna
Date
September 14, 2015
Focus Area
Other Areas
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April 2014
Title
Professor Nigel Lightfoot CBE, Executive Director of CORDS
Date
April 01, 2014
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Content Type
April 2016
Title
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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August 2019
Title
Professor Rosa Cao, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
September 2019
Title
Professor Shaul Druckmann, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
May 2016
Title
Professor Shirley Tilghman, Co-Founder, Rescuing Biomedical Research, and President Emerita/Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Date
May 19, 2016
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
March 2017
Title
Professor Simon Nicholson, Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Date
March 10, 2017
Focus Area
Other Areas
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January 2020
Title
Professor Stephen Baccus, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University
Date
January 22, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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April 2017
Title
Professor Trevor Gaunt, Emeritus Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town
Date
April 04, 2017
Focus Area
Other Areas
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August 2019
Title
Professor Won Mok Shim, Associate Professor at the Centre for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Sungkyunkwan University
Date
August 07, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
September 2012
Title
Rebecca Daou, Divisions Manager, Lions Club International Foundation
Date
September 25, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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
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Other Areas
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December 2017
May 2017
December 2017
June 2017
March 2014
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Richard England, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy; Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire
Date
March 22, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
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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
January 2013
Title
Richard Mugisha, Program Officer/Country Manager, Uganda, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa
Date
January 29, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
February 2014
Title
Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
February 06, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Richard Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Cancer Policy & Global Health at Kings College London, Director of the Kings Institute of Cancer Policy
Date
January 08, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Rob Reich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Board member, GiveWell
Date
January 09, 2014
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
April 2014
Title
Robert Bloomfield, Professor of Management and Accounting, Cornell University
Date
April 04, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization 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
April 2014
Title
Robert Greenstein, President, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Date
April 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
November 2015
Title
Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology and of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
November 16, 2015
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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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
June 2013
Title
Robert Tjian, President, and Cheryl Moore, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, HHMI
Date
June 03, 2013
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
January 2014
Title
Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Date
January 15, 2014
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
July 2015
Title
Russell Stewart, PhD Student, Stanford University
Date
July 29, 2015
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
July 2013
Title
Ruth Levineb (Program Director), Helena Choi (Program Officer), and Margot Fahnestock (Program Officer), Global Development and Population Program
Date
July 15, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2012
Title
Sally Green, Co-Director of the Australasian Cochrane Center
Date
August 23, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Sally O’Brien, Senior Vice President of Philanthropic Partnerships, Pew Charitable Trusts
Date
August 14, 2013
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Sally Satel, MD, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Date
October 10, 2013
Focus Area
Other Areas
Content Type
September 2012
Title
Sara Rogge and Alix Zwane, Senior Program Officers, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gates Foundation, and Jenna Brereton, Consultant, Geneva Global
Date
September 18, 2012
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
September 2016
Title
Sarah Williamson, Executive Director, Protect the People
Date
September 09, 2016
Focus Area
Immigration 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
October 2014
Title
Scott Sumner, Professor of Economics, Bentley University
Date
October 03, 2014
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Content Type
April 2013
Title
Sean Brocklebank, Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Date
April 18, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
August 2013
Title
Seema Gajwani, Program Officer for Criminal Justice, Public Welfare Foundation
Date
August 28, 2013
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Content Type
October 2013
Title
Seth Baum, Executive Director Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Date
October 02, 2013
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Content Type
September 2013