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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Served as an AI policy specialist in a role aimed at increasing policy-making bandwidth on AI.• Worked with researchers and policy professionals in government, top AI labs, foundations, academia and non-profits to identify key ‘talent gaps’ in the AI policy space, and develop ‘talent pipelines’ to help fill them.

London, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Appointed as Assistant Director, with responsibility for all non-research elements of the Institute, including policy, non-academic fundraising, finances, media, communications, hiring and operations.• Helped approximately double the size of the organisation to 20 full-time staff, including growing my team from one to five FTE members.• Personally raised £2.5m+ in funding from high net worth donors and foundations.• Gave oral evidence at the European Parliament on the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Oxford, United Kingdom

• Proposed and then co-founded the organisation; initiated and coordinated three of the fourinitial restructurings that allowed the organisation to grow from zero to sixteen full-timestaff over the course of four years.• Held a range of management roles including Director of Communications for Giving WhatWe Can, Acting Executive Director of 80,000 Hours, and Director of Special Projects for theCentre for Effective Altruism.• Co-founded and led the Global Priorities Project, a joint initiative with the Future ofHumanity Institute at the University of Oxford, before hiring someone to lead the project;wrote multiple policy briefs for key policymakers.• Managed a team of three full time staff and eleven contractors as part of theEffective Altruism Outreach project; coordinated hundreds of media articles on effectivealtruism, helping turn it into a popular term.• Raised £250k+ for the organisation from dozens of donors.

• Wrote a report for the President’s Office on the causes of sea level rise in the Maldives.• Worked with the President’s press officer to answer scientific enquiries from the media.

• Co-founded and served as Executive Director for the group, which was named one of themost influential climate policy websites in a network analysis by Social Media Labs.• Led a team of 30+ volunteer analysts from academia and the professional policy community,which produced independent analyses of national and international climate change policy.• Attended the 2009 G8 Summit as an analyst, giving rapid-reaction interviews to the media.

Operations and Policy Unit, East Asia and Pacific Division• Produced a literature review on the economics of adapting to climate change, and gave a presentation on the topic to roughly 40 World Bank employees.• Wrote a review of two Bank investigations/simulations of the effect of sea level rise on South-east Asian coastal mega-cities.

• Sat on the executive committee after a year as an analyst.• Attended the 2008 G8 Summit, and wrote rapid-response analysis and gave interviews forthe media.• Co-edited a peer-reviewed 250+ page report titled ‘Governing Global Climate Change’,assessing G8 nations compliance with their previous climate change commitments, which received international media attention.

Founded the group, working with NGOs and students across the country to promote "Contraction and Convergence", an equitable international climate policy framework.

• Won a competitive University-wide election onto the student union's part-time executive. • Responsible for a committee of roughly 40 college environment officers.• Coordinated over a dozen campaigns, including one that resulted in the University signing afive-year ‘green' electricity contract, making it the fifth largest renewable electricity user in the UK at the time.

Dphil, Physics

(DPhil, equivalent to a PhD), Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford. Supervised by Prof. Myles Allen, Prof..

Mphys, Physics

Activities and Societies: Oxford University Student Union Executive Committee, Oxford University Student Union Environment and Ethics.

Education record

A-Levels: Mathematics, A; Further Mathematics, A; Physics, A; Music Technology, A