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]
Global Priorities Institute Senior Research Fellow 2018-01-01 [8], [2], [9]
Centre for Effective Altruism President 2018-01-01 2018-06-01 full-time [7], [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 full-time [16], [17]
Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research Research Collaborator 2024-08-23 [18]

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Similar people

Showing at most 20 people who are most similar in terms of which organizations they have worked at.

Person Number of organizations in common List of organizations in common
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
Benjamin Todd 3 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism, Global Priorities Institute
Toby Ord 3 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute, Giving What We Can
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
Alex Holness-Tofts 2 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute
Luisa Rodriguez 2 80,000 Hours, Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research
Robert Wiblin 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Katy Moore 2 80,000 Hours, Giving What We Can
Hilary Greaves 2 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute
Caitlin Elizondo 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Chloe Malone 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
George McGowan 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism
Habiba Islam 2 80,000 Hours, Global Priorities Institute
Larissa Hesketh-Rowe 2 80,000 Hours, Centre for Effective Altruism