Information for Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research

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Basic information

Item Value
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

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 16 Aron Vallinder, John G. Halstead, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan Frankie Andersen-Wood, Laura Pomarius, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff Eirin Evjen Igor Kurganov, Luisa Rodriguez
2023 16 Aron Vallinder, John G. Halstead, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan Frankie Andersen-Wood, Laura Pomarius, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff Eirin Evjen Igor Kurganov, Luisa Rodriguez
2024 16 Aron Vallinder, John G. Halstead, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan Frankie Andersen-Wood, Laura Pomarius, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff Eirin Evjen Igor Kurganov, Luisa Rodriguez

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 13 Aron Vallinder, Frankie Andersen-Wood, John G. Halstead, Laura Pomarius, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2023-01-01 13 Aron Vallinder, Frankie Andersen-Wood, John G. Halstead, Laura Pomarius, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff
2024-01-01 13 Aron Vallinder, Frankie Andersen-Wood, John G. Halstead, Laura Pomarius, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Luisa Rodriguez, Max Daniel, Pedro Oliboni, Risto Uuk, Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan, William MacAskill, Zach Freitas-Groff

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 9 3 0 Igor Kurganov, John G. Halstead, Luisa Rodriguez
2021-02-01 10 1 0 Pedro Oliboni
2021-03-01 11 1 0 Risto Uuk
2021-06-01 12 1 0 Leopold Aschenbrenner
2021-07-01 13 1 0 Max Daniel
2021-08-01 15 2 0 Stephen Clare, Thomas Moynihan
2021-09-01 16 2 -1 Eirin Evjen, Luisa Rodriguez Luisa Rodriguez

List of people (18 positions)

Person Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
William MacAskill Director 2018-11-25 full-time [1], [2] See [2] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Laura Pomarius Assistant Director 2018-11-25 full-time [1], [2] See [2] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Aron Vallinder Research Fellow 2018-11-25 full-time [1], [2] See [2] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Philip Trammell Research Fellow 2018-11-25 2020-05-25 full-time [1], [2], [3] See [2] for the launch post by MacAskill.
Luisa Rodriguez Research Fellow 2020-02-01 full-time [3], [4]
Luisa Rodriguez Chief Of Staff 2021-09-01 2021-09-01 full-time [4]
Luisa Rodriguez Strategic Advisor 2021-01-01 advisor [5]
Frankie Andersen-Wood Executive Assistant 2020-03-01 full-time [6], [7]
Max Daniel Chief of Staff 2021-07-01 full-time [8], [9]
Eirin Evjen Operations Associate 2021-09-01 [8], [10]
John G. Halstead Research Fellow 2021-01-01 [8]
Stephen Clare Research Fellow 2021-08-01 [8], [11]
Leopold Aschenbrenner Research Fellow 2021-06-01 full-time [12]
Thomas Moynihan Research Fellow 2021-08-01 [8], [13]
Igor Kurganov Strategic Advisor 2021-01-01 advisor [8]
Risto Uuk Global Priorities Fellow 2021-03-01 [14]
Pedro Oliboni Global Priorities Fellow 2021-02-01 [15]
Zach Freitas-Groff Global Priorities Fellow 2019-01-01 [16]

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