Information for Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research

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Basic information

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Country United Kingdom
Website https://www.forethought.org/
Team page https://www.forethought.org/about-us
Launch date 2018-12-04
Hosting organization Centre for Effective Altruism
Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org 2024-08-23
Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

Positions count by year

Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).

Year Positions count Researchers General staff Associates Board members Advisors
2018 4 Aron Vallinder, Philip Trammell Laura Pomarius, William MacAskill
2019 5 Aron Vallinder, Philip Trammell Laura Pomarius, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2020 7 Aron Vallinder, Luisa Rodriguez, Philip Trammell Frankie Andersen-Wood, Laura Pomarius, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2021 17 Aron Vallinder, John G. Halstead, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan Frankie Andersen-Wood, Laura Pomarius, Luisa Rodriguez, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff Eirin Evjen Igor Kurganov, Luisa Rodriguez
2022 14 Arvo Muñoz Morán, John G. Halstead, Keith Wynroe, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan Abie Rohrig, Gavin Weinberg, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill Eirin Evjen Igor Kurganov, Luisa Rodriguez
2023 6 Arvo Muñoz Morán, Thomas Moynihan Eirin Evjen, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill Gavin Weinberg
2024 7 Moritz von Knebel, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill Eirin Evjen, Max Dalton, William MacAskill Gavin Weinberg
2025 3 Moritz von Knebel, William MacAskill Max Dalton

Number of full-time staff at the beginning each year

The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.

Date Staff count Staff
2019-01-01 5 Aron Vallinder, Laura Pomarius, Philip Trammell, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2020-01-01 5 Aron Vallinder, Laura Pomarius, Philip Trammell, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2021-01-01 7 Aron Vallinder, Frankie Andersen-Wood, John G. Halstead, Laura Pomarius, Luisa Rodriguez, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2022-01-01 7 John G. Halstead, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill
2023-01-01 5 Arvo Muñoz Morán, Eirin Evjen, Risto Uuk, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill
2024-01-01 3 Eirin Evjen, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill
2025-01-01 3 Max Dalton, Moritz von Knebel, William MacAskill

Full history of additions and subtractions

This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.

Date Number of positions Number of positions added Number of positions removed Positions added Positions removed
2018-11-25 4 4 0 Aron Vallinder, Laura Pomarius, Philip Trammell, William MacAskill
2019-01-01 5 1 0 Zach Freitas-Groff
2020-02-01 6 1 0 Luisa Rodriguez
2020-03-01 7 1 0 Frankie Andersen-Wood
2020-05-25 6 0 -1 Philip Trammell
2021-01-01 8 2 0 John G. Halstead, Luisa Rodriguez
2021-02-01 8 1 -1 Pedro Oliboni Luisa Rodriguez
2021-03-01 8 1 -1 Risto Uuk Frankie Andersen-Wood
2021-03-16 9 1 0 Igor Kurganov
2021-05-18 8 0 -1 Aron Vallinder
2021-06-01 9 1 0 Leopold Aschenbrenner
2021-07-01 10 1 0 Max Daniel
2021-08-01 12 2 0 Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan
2021-09-01 13 2 -1 Eirin Evjen, Luisa Rodriguez Luisa Rodriguez
2021-12-01 11 0 -2 Laura Pomarius, Zach Freitas-Groff
2022-01-01 10 0 -1 Leopold Aschenbrenner
2022-02-01 9 0 -1 Pedro Oliboni
2022-03-01 10 1 0 Keith Wynroe
2022-07-01 11 1 0 Arvo Muñoz Morán
2022-08-01 10 0 -1 John G. Halstead
2022-09-01 11 1 0 Gavin Weinberg
2022-11-01 10 0 -1 Max Daniel
2022-11-30 7 1 -4 Abie Rohrig Abie Rohrig, Igor Kurganov, Keith Wynroe, Luisa Rodriguez
2022-12-01 6 0 -1 Stephen Clare
2023-01-01 6 2 -2 Eirin Evjen, Gavin Weinberg Eirin Evjen, Gavin Weinberg
2023-02-01 5 0 -1 Risto Uuk
2023-07-01 4 0 -1 Arvo Muñoz Morán
2024-04-01 3 0 -1 Gavin Weinberg
2024-05-27 2 0 -1 Thomas Moynihan
2024-06-01 1 0 -1 Eirin Evjen
2024-07-29 0 0 -1 William MacAskill
2024-08-23 3 3 0 Max Dalton, Moritz von Knebel, William MacAskill

List of people (27 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Max Dalton Director 2024-08-23 [1]
William MacAskill Research Collaborator 2024-08-23 [1]
Moritz von Knebel Research Fellow 2024-08-23 [1]
William MacAskill Director 2018-11-25 2024-07-29 full-time [2], [3], [4] See [3] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Laura Pomarius Assistant Director 2018-11-25 2021-12-01 full-time [2], [3], [5] See [3] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Aron Vallinder Research Fellow 2018-11-25 2021-05-18 full-time [2], [3], [6] See [3] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Philip Trammell Research Fellow 2018-11-25 2020-05-25 full-time [2], [3], [7] See [3] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Luisa Rodriguez Research Fellow 2020-02-01 2021-02-01 full-time [7], [8]
Luisa Rodriguez Chief Of Staff 2021-09-01 2021-09-01 full-time [8]
Luisa Rodriguez Strategic Advisor 2021-01-01 2022-11-30 advisor [9], [10]
Frankie Andersen-Wood Executive Assistant 2020-03-01 2021-03-01 full-time [11], [12]
Max Daniel Chief of Staff 2021-07-01 2022-11-01 full-time [13], [14]
Eirin Evjen Chief of Staff 2023-01-01 2024-06-01 [15]
Eirin Evjen Operations Associate 2021-09-01 2023-01-01 [13], [16]
John G. Halstead Research Fellow 2021-01-01 2022-08-01 [13]
Stephen Clare Research Fellow 2021-08-01 2022-12-01 [13], [17]
Leopold Aschenbrenner Research Fellow 2021-06-01 2022-01-01 full-time [13], [18]
Thomas Moynihan Research Fellow 2021-08-01 2024-05-27 [13], [19], [20]
Igor Kurganov Strategic Advisor 2021-03-16 2022-11-30 advisor [21], [22]
Risto Uuk Global Priorities Fellow 2021-03-01 2023-02-01 [23]
Pedro Oliboni Global Priorities Fellow 2021-02-01 2022-02-01 [24]
Zach Freitas-Groff Global Priorities Fellow 2019-01-01 2021-12-01 [25]
Abie Rohrig Communications director 2022-11-30 2022-11-30 [10]
Arvo Muñoz Morán Research Analyst 2022-07-01 2023-07-01 [10], [26]
Keith Wynroe Research Analyst 2022-03-01 2022-11-30 full-time [10], [27]
Gavin Weinberg Operations Intern 2022-09-01 2023-01-01 [28]
Gavin Weinberg Operations Associate 2023-01-01 2024-04-01 [28]

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