Research team
Prof Hilary Greaves
Director
Hilary Greaves is a Professor at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of Philosophy. She has publications in top philosophy journals on philosophy of physics, formal epistemology and ethics and has extensive experience of interdisciplinary work with physics and economics. Most recently, she has worked on population ethics, discounting, and the problem of cluelessness.
Dr Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan
Assistant Director (Economics)
Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan is a Prize Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College, within the University of Oxford. Prior to coming to Oxford, he was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship and has worked for both the World Bank and GiveWell. His main research interests are in empirical microeconomics: development economics; networks and peer effects; public goods; and structural estimation.
Assoc Prof William MacAskill
Senior Research Fellow
William MacAskill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University. He has published in philosophy journals such as Mind, Ethics, and the Journal of Philosophy, and authored the bestselling book Doing Good Better. He cofounded the international non-profits Centre for Effective Altruism (2012), 80,000 Hours (2011), and Giving What We Can (2009).
Assoc Prof Andreas Mogensen
Assistant Director (Philosophy)
Andreas Mogensen joined GPI from Jesus College, Oxford, where he held a Tutorial Fellowship until the end of 2018. He was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College from 2010 to 2015. His current research interests are in normative and applied ethics and decision theory, and his prior publications have addressed topics in meta-ethics, moral epistemology, and the metaphysics of personal identity.
Dr Christian Tarsney
Research Fellow
Prior to joining GPI, Christian Tarsney was a Research Fellow at the University of Groningen. He has published work on decision-making under normative uncertainty, the use of social discount rates for climate policy, and the practical implications of undervaluing the future.
Dr Teruji Thomas
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Johan Gustafsson
Senior Research Consultant
Johan Gustafsson completed his PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology between 2007-2011. He then became a postdoc at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'homme in Paris before moving to York to take up a lecturer position in 2013.
Prof Antony Millner
Senior Research Affiliate
Antony Millner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include intertemporal choice and social discounting, decision-making under uncertainty, the economics of climate change and other long-run global risks, and political and behavioural economics.
Prof Julian Jamison
Senior Research Affiliate
Julian Jamison is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the interaction between individual preferences, decisions, and well-being on the one hand, and institutional policies on the other, with a special interest in explicit welfare tradeoffs.
Philip Trammell
Research Affiliate
Philip's work aims to determine how the tools of economic theory might be applied to questions of very-long-term importance. He studied economics and mathematics at Brown University, and he has served in economics research roles at the Cato Institute, NERA Economic Consulting, and the University of Chicago.
Maxime Cugnon de Sévricourt
Predoctoral Research Fellow (Economics)
Maxime's research interests include altruistic coordination and how we can design better institutions and mechanisms. He obtained a Master's degree in Economics from Sciences Po Paris in 2018, and since then has worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Johannes Boehm at Sciences Po, and for Prof. Francis Kramarz at CREST.
Gustav Alexandrie
Predoctoral Research Fellow (Economics)
Gustav holds a BSci in Economics and an MA in Philosophy. His research interests include welfare economics and decision theory. Prior to joining GPI, he served as the community manager for Effective Altruism Sweden.
Operations team
Dr Sven Herrmann
Head of Research Operations
Dr Will Jefferson
Operations Assistant
Thomas Clews
Operations Administrative Assistant
Research scholars
Elliott Thornley
Parfit Scholar
Elliott is studying for a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. His research interests include population ethics, moral convergence, and the longtermism paradigm.
Michael Wulfsohn
Atkinson Scholar
Michael Wulfsohn is an Economics graduate student at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Actuaries Institute (Australia). His research focusses mainly on international cooperation within macroeconomic policy. He has worked as a development economist and investment analyst.
Board of Advisors
Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy (Oxford University)
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics (Princeton University)
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy (Oxford University)
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy (University of Cambridge) and Baroness of Bengarve (House of Lords)
Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy Project
Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics (Harvard University)
Special Chair Professor, School of Economics (Fudan University); Emeritus Professor (Monash University)
Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies (Princeton University)
Research collaborators
Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute
Assistant Professor Eva Vivalt
Australian National University
Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute
Research Fellow, the Social Behaviour and Ethics Lab, University of Oxford
