Meet the Team

  • David Reinstein

    FOUNDER, CO-DIRECTOR

  • Gavin Taylor

    CO-DIRECTOR

  • Davit Jintcharadze

    OPERATIONS LEAD

  • Ryan Briggs

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Tanya O'Garra

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Anirudh Tagat

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Hansika Kapoor

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Kris Gulati

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Emmanuel Orkoh

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Rosie Bettle

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Alexander Herwix

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Andrei Potlogea

    MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

  • Andrew Gelman

    Columbia University

  • Sam Abbott

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • Anca Hanea

    University of Melbourne

  • Jordan Dworkin

    Open Philanthropy

  • Michael Wiebe

    University of British Columbia

  • Lorenzo Pacchiardi

    University of Cambridge

  • Stuart Buck

    Good Science Project

Our Field Specialist Teams

Development economics: Anirudh Tagat, Ryan Briggs, Michael Wiebe, Nathan Fiala, Emmanuel Orkoh, Nathan Fiala, Robert Kubinec, Masyhur Hilmy, Wayne Sandholtz, Lee Crawfurd

Global health and well-being: Jake Eaton, Rosie Bettle, Charlotte Lane, Shobhit Kulshreshtha, Jonah Goldberg, Valentin Klotzbücher, Priya Lall

Economics, welfare, and governance: David Reinstein, Julian Jamison, Tabare Capitan, Joel Christoph, Andrei Potlogea, Greg Sasso

Psychology, behavioral science, attitudes: Hansika Kapoor, Jonathan Berman, Mattie Toma, Carina Ines Hausladen, Hannah Metzler

Innovation, meta-science, social impact of technology: Daniela Cialfi, Jordan Dworkin, Kris Gulati, Andrew Kao, Gavin Taylor

Environmental economics: Tanya O'Garra, Ben Balmford

Animal welfare (markets, attitudes): Josh Tasoff, Kevin Kuruc, Florian Habermacher, Nicolas Treich

Catastrophic risks, AI governance and safety: David Manheim; advisory: Anca Hanea, Alexander Herwix

This section was updated 1 Apr 2024.

Our evaluator pool

Over 200 people have signed up to be part of our ‘Evaluator Pool’; we prioritize this list in commissioning experts to publicly assess prioritized research. We do not require any particular credentials; we focus on demonstrated experience, relevant expertise, and careful transparent writing and analysis. Nonetheless, this includes about 90 people with PhD degrees, 40 professors and professional academic researchers, 40 professional researchers at non-academic institutions, and 40 Ph.D. students.

To sign up to be part of our evaluator pool, please complete this form. Also consider submitting an “independent evaluation”, or engaging in other ways.

This section was updated 2 Oct. 2024.