EAG Talks

EAG Talks

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EAG Talks episodes

  • Three Journeys for EA | Zach Robinson | EAG London: 2024

    This session features the CEO of the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), Zach Robinson. Zach talks about the principles that he considers core to EA, explains why CEA under his leadership will continue to promote them above and beyond any single or set of cause area(s), and answers questions from the audience.

    Zach joined as CEA's CEO in February 2024. He also serves as the CEO of CEA's fiscal sponsor, Effective Ventures Foundation USA. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy (OP), where he managed communications and grantmaking teams, developed organisation-wide policies to help OP scale, and identified new Global Health and Wellbeing cause areas to increase OP's giving. Prior to his work at OP, he was the director of product and strategy for startup Ivy Research Council (now Veris Insights) and worked as a management consultant at Bain and Company.


    39 min
  • First timers at EA Global | Zershaaneh Qureshi & Charlotte Darnell | EAG London: 2024

    This session is a brief overview of how to get the most out of EA Global, and provides some guidance and tips for first-time attendees.

    Zershaaneh is an AI strategy researcher at Convergence Analysis. She became active in EA after a career shift in 2023. Before this, she worked at a for-profit company where she researched and consulted on market dynamics in the global water industry, and helped to organise international conferences. Previously, she studied Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
    Charlotte Darnell is a Community Liaison at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Before joining the Community Health team, Charlotte worked on the Events team and has also worked on various community-building projects outside of CEA, such as EAGxOxford 2022, UK high school outreach, and university group events. She studied History and Modern Languages at the University of Exeter.


    29 min
  • Ambitious Impact: lightning talks featuring newly incubated charities | EAG London: 2024

    Hear updates from charities incubated by Ambitious Impact (AIM) working on topics including fundraising for animal welfare work, tobacco policy and maternal health. Learn about the innovative ways to contribute and low-hanging fruit in global health and development and animal welfare.

    Klau Chmielowska is the co-founder and co-executive director of Lafiya Nigeria, a highly effective charity providing family planning counselling and access to contraception in northern Nigeria. With a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, Klau combines their expertise in global development with a passion for building scalable and highly impactful poverty interventions.
    José Mallén has been involved in effective altruism since 2015 and in animal advocacy since the mid-90s. He works at Animal Ask as Global Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator. Animal Ask is a Charity Entrepreneurship incubated, UK-based group that supports organisations with in-depth, cross-comparative research to support decision making towards the most promising opportunities for animals. José is currently focused on helping connect researchers, advocates and funders to build an ever-expanding knowledge base. A generalist, he is interested in animal movement-centric approaches to R&D and in near-term and long-term theories of change.
    Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind, a new effective giving organisation launched out of the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program in April 2024. Farmed animal welfare is woefully underfunded, with global resources of less than 30 cents of funding per animal killed in the US alone. FarmKind's mission is to help reduce the funding gaps for some of the best evidenced-effective organisations in the space.
    Supriya is the co-founder and Executive Director of Ansh. Supriya has worked in multiple roles for non-profits across the UK, the US, and India. During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, she co-founded a helpline that established a supply chain network for medicines, oxygen, and other essential medical services for vulnerable families. She also worked at Suvita, a charity incubated by Charity Entrepreunership, to increase the uptake of routine vaccinations in Bihar and Maharashtra. Supriya holds a Master's in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor's in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
    The final talk is from the co-founder of Concentric, a policy NGO launched through the Charity Entrepreneurship-AIM incubation program. Hailing from California, he attended the University of Maryland and created his own degree through the university's most selective academic program. He has experience living and working in the conflict zone of Congo for an all-Congolese NGO, as well as, starting a small business in Goma, Congo. He is passionate about political system reform, especially in the United States


    51 min
  • Good Ancestors - 12 months of Australian policy advocacy | Greg Sadler | EAGxAustralia 2023

    Greg Sadler, the CEO of Good Ancestors Policy, discusses his approach to policy advocacy in Australia, gives an overview of the major projects GAP has completed and their impact, as well as insight into the work going on behind the scenes. Finally, Greg talks about what's planned for the next 12 months and how you can get involved, including by using your political capital in the most impactful ways.

    Greg Sadler is the Secretary of Effective Altruism Australia, helped found EAA: Environment, and is the CEO of Good Ancestors Policy. At Good Ancestors, he works to translate EA ideas and research into policy change at the state and federal levels. Good Ancestors has worked on a range of issues from catastrophic disasters and food security to AI Safety and pandemic prevention. Previously, Greg was a public servant where he held senior positions relating to managing catastrophic risk, counter-terrorism and cyber security.
    MC: Will Horan


    Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZFMSYKtGM

    41 min
  • Welfare and moral patienthood | Jeff Sebo, Daniela Waldhorn, & Patrick Butlin | EAG London: 2024

    This panel brings together three leading researchers to discuss their work on welfare and moral patienthood in non-human minds. The panel focuses on two especially challenging cases: invertebrates and digital minds. Jeff Sebo (NYU) begins with a discussion of ethical and methodological considerations related to extending moral considerability to invertebrates and AI systems; Daniela Waldhorn (Rethink Priorities) discusses the current state of evidence regarding consciousness and sentience in invertebrates; and Patrick Butlin (Oxford) discusses what is currently known about the prospects for artificial sentience in digital systems.

    Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy, and Law, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program, Director of the Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program, Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, and Deputy Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection at New York University. He is the author of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2018) and Food, Animals, and the Environment (2018). He is also a board member at Minding Animals International, an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society, a senior research fellow at the Legal Priorities Project, and a mentor at Sentient Media.
    Daniela Waldhorn is Director of Animal Welfare at Rethink Priorities. She has more than 15 years of experience in animal advocacy in Latin America and Europe, and has extensively researched several farmed invertebrate welfare issues. Daniela is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Barcelona, a board member of the Centre for Animal Ethics, an Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, and a research member of the COMPASS Project at the same university. She also serves as an advisor to the Shrimp Welfare Project and the Aquatic Life Institute. Daniela has an MS in International Development (Jaume I University and University of Valencia) and an MS in Ethics and Politics (University of Barcelona), and you can reach out to her in Spanish, Catalan or English.
    Patrick Butlin is a philosopher of mind and a researcher at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford. Patrick previously worked at the Future of Humanity Institute. Most of Patrick's research is on consciousness and agency in AI.
    Andreas Mogensen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, which is part of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. Andreas has worked on a range of different issues in meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. His current research is primarily focused on questions in the philosophy of mind and well-being, with the potential to inform the weights we assign to non-human minds in priority setting.


    Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQ_tLPbYoY

    54 min
  • A balanced view on taking the Giving What We Can pledge | Grace Adams | EAG London: 2024


    Taking a giving pledge could be a high impact way to help others—but there are some important considerations to think through before making a commitment. This session is a balanced exploration about why and why not to pledge, and the relevant factors that might influence your decision. In this talk you'll hear from people who haven't pledged, as well as those who have and learn about their thinking on the topic. We cover insights from Giving What We Can's user research about what motivates people to pledge, as well as why others choose not to pledge. This session is for anyone who gives, or is considering giving, as well as community builders who want to have better conversations about what it means to pledge to give effectively.
    Grace Adams is the Head of Marketing at Giving What We Can. She has worked in marketing, digital product and customer experience through various roles including as a management consultant. Grace graduated with distinction from an applied bachelor of business with a major in marketing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is striving to create a world where all its inhabitants are able to thrive, and thanks everyone who is spending their precious time on earth to do the same.
    Akhil Bansal is a medical doctor from Australia, who currently works in public health and as a field strategy consultant on antimicrobial resistance for Schmidt Futures.
    Lizka Vaintrob works on various content-related projects at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Before starting at CEA, she worked in maths education and was a visiting research fellow at Rethink Priorities. Lizka holds a BA from Columbia University with a double major in mathematics and comparative literature.


    Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0iaLUGksPQ

    52 min
  • Evidence Action: Scaling the most effective health interventions| Carlita Bevege| EAGxAustralia 2023

    Associate Director of External Relations Carlita Bevege gives us an inside look at Evidence Action's flagship programs, Deworm the World and Dispensers for Safe Water, and take us through the Accelerator, their engine for new program development. She provides insight into how Evidence Action evaluates the research behind promising new interventions and brings those with the most potential for impact to scale, reaching hundreds of millions of people with proven low-cost health solutions. Evidence Action is a foremost partner of GiveWell, CEA, J-PAL, and Open Philanthropy because of its rigorous and inspiring approach to using evidence to improve global well-being.

    Carlita Bevege is Evidence Action’s Associate Director, External Relations, and works across fundraising, communications, and thought leadership. Prior to joining the team full time in 2020, Carlita was a consultant to Evidence Action’s Nairobi office, where she supported a variety of initiative variety of initiatives including a global strategic plan for Deworm the World.
    MC: Bec Mayo


    Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrOshn1PyfA

    43 min
  • Professional groups and EA | Ellie Christian and Clare Harris | EAGxAustralia 2023

    Professional groups and EA navigating uncertainty together with open-mindedness and humility

    Ellie Christian and Clare Harris
    Ellie Christian is a Newcastle-based medical doctor. She is a masters of public health student at the University of Sydney. She is the Australia coordinator for High Impact Medicine.
    Clare Harris is a junior medical doctor working as a researcher for Spencer Greenberg at SparkWave.tech. She's head of monitoring and evaluation at High Impact Medicine. She has experience working in phase 1 and 2 clinical trials research in neuroscience, and has also worked as a contractual researcher for academic and non-academic institutions."


    Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brP1sc5n4E4

    27 min

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