Information for William MacAskill

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Donations List Website (data still preliminary)

List of positions (10 positions)

Organization Title Start date End date Employment type Source Notes
Centre for Effective Altruism Trustee board member [1]
80,000 Hours Co-founder and President 2011-09-01 2022-02-22 [2], [3] William MacAskill was originally named William Crouch
Giving What We Can Co-Founder, Vice-President 2016-01-25 2016-06-03 [4], [5]
Centre for Effective Altruism Chief executive officer 2016-10-01 2018-01-01 full-time [6], [7]
Centre for Effective Altruism President 2018-01-01 2018-06-01 full-time [7], [8]
Global Priorities Institute Senior Research Fellow 2018-01-01 [9], [2], [10]
Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research Director 2018-11-25 2024-07-29 full-time [11], [12], [13] See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vxwcxwiDKCnyHJhbz/announcing-the-new-forethought-foundation-for-global for the launch post by MacAskill.
FTX Future Fund Team member 2022-02-01 2022-11-10 [14], [15] Resigned upon FTX bankruptcy
80,000 Hours Co-founder 2022-06-30 [16], [17]
Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research Research Collaborator 2024-08-23 [18]

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Similar people

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Owen Cotton-Barratt 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute
Michelle Hutchinson 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Giving What We Can
Toby Ord 3 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute, Giving What We Can
Benjamin Todd 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute
Andreas Mogensen 3 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute, Giving What We Can
Andrew Leeke 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Giving What We Can
Julia Wise 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Giving What We Can
Nick Beckstead 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, FTX Future Fund
Leopold Aschenbrenner 3 Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research, FTX Future Fund, Global Priorities Institute
Niel Bowerman 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Chana Messinger 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Eli Nathan 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Eve McCormick 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Huw Thomas 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Katy Moore 2 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can
Luisa Rodriguez 2 80,000 Hours, Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research
Robert Wiblin 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Anna Weldon 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Emma Abele 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Hilary Greaves 2 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute