The Team
Giving What We Can owes its success to the hard work of our dedicated team, both full time staff and volunteers. Here are just a few of the people who made us what we are today.
Directors
| President | Toby Ord E-mail:  | Toby is a postdoctoral research fellow in ethics at the University of Oxford. |  |
| Vice President | William MacAskill E-mail: | Will is a DPhil student at Oxford University. He is currently visiting Princeton on a Fullbright scholarship. |  |
| Executive Director | Michelle Hutchinson E-mail: | Michelle studied Physics and Philosophy for her undergraduate degree, and is just finishing up her PhD in moral philosophy at Oxford University. |  |
| Assistant Director | Andreas Mogensen E-mail: | Andreas is an Examination Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He studies ethics, meta-ethics, and epistemology. |  |
| Operations Director | Tom Ash E-mail: | Tom studied philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford, after which he spent several years working for non-profits including openDemocracy and the New Internationalist. |  |
| Research Director | Robert Wiblin E-mail: Skype | Rob graduated top of his year in Applied Economics from the Australian National University, and has worked as a research economist in several Australian Government agencies including the Productivity Commission. |  |
Managers
| Regional Manager | Robert Gledhill E-mail: | Robert works full time as an engineer and in his spare time he supports our global fleet of chapters and helps new chapters start up. |  |
| Community Manager | Gregory Lewis E-mail: | Greg is a final year medical student at Cambridge. Besides healing the sick, he is interested in the more quantitative bits of science, the more applied bits of philosophy, reading, and writing. |  |
| Legal and Financial Manager | Matthew Wright E-mail: | Matt is a fourth year mathematician at Worcester College, Oxford. |  |
| Webmaster | Alex Robson E-mail: | Alex is a Postgraduate Researcher at Oxford University. |  |
| Research Manager | Sally Murray E-mail: | Sally is a graduate student in Development Studies (Research) at the London School of Economics. Prior to this, she read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford, and spent a year working for NGOs in India, Cambodia, Malawi and the UK. She currently manages several volunteers in London, with a primary focus on micronutrients. |  |
Research team
Below is a sample of our key past and present research contributors.
| Nick Beckstead | Nick used to direct Giving What We Can's research. He is now a trustee who regularly advises on difficult research issues. He is also a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University. He studied math and philosophy at the University of Minnesota, and has broad interests in normative theory. |
| Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Donovan | Rossa is doing a PhD in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, on a Fulbright Scholarship. He graduated with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, where he won a prize for the best undergraduate thesis. He is currently taking time out from Giving What We Can's research to focus on his studies. |
| Owen Cotton-Barratt | Owen is a College Lecturer in pure mathematics at Oxford. He is using his knowledge of probability theory and statistics to investigate appropriate Bayesian updating in our charity evaluations, to deal with issues such as regression to the mean. |
| Bastian Stern | Bastian is a postgraduate student in philosophy at Oxford University. He recently graduated top in his year with a double starred first from Cambridge, with one of the best undergraduate performances on record. |
| Michael Peyton Jones | Michael has background in computer programming, and recently graduated with First Class Honours from Oxford in Mathematics and Philosophy. |
| Nic Dunkley | Nic is a PhD student in machine learning at Oxford University. He graduated with First Class Honours from Cambridge, and received in 96% in his Master’s degree in Applied Statistics at Oxford. |
| Eliz Kilich | Eliz is currently reading Clinical Medicine at Oxford University with an interest in tropical medicine and infectious disease. During her preclinical studies she was awarded a Casberd Scholarship by St. John’s College. She is currently investigating biomedical research and contagious diseases. |
| Shaun Raviv | Shaun Raviv is a New York City-based writer. In 2010 and 2011, he lived in Swaziland supported by a Fulbright fellowship, covering the HIV epidemic as a journalist and playwright. |
Volunteer
We depend heavily on the help of our interns and volunteers. If you would like to join the team please consider volunteering with us.
