About us
The Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research aims to promote academic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world by as much as possible.
We are especially interested in the idea that the primary determinant of the value of our actions today is how those actions influence the very long-run future. We believe that by making the right decisions today, humanity has the opportunity to positively steer civilisation’s trajectory for thousands of years to come. We are therefore interested in supporting excellent research that:
Defends or criticises the idea that we should primarily care about the very long-run impact of our actions.
Works out the implications of a long-term view for our decisions today.
Is of importance for the long-run future of civilisation, even if the research is not directly about the idea of long-term impact.
Our Team
Max Dalton
Director
Max was previously Executive Director at the Centre for Effective Altruism. He has a first class degree in Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Assoc Prof William MacAskill
Research Collaborator
William is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford. His academic research focuses on the fundamentals of effective altruism - the use of evidence and reason to help others by as much as possible with our time and money, with a particular concentration on how to act given moral uncertainty.
Moritz von Knebel
Research Fellow
With a background in Political Science and Philosophy, Moritz investigates questions at the intersection of technology, policy and international relations. Moritz is a Mercator Fellow for International Affairs, a consultant to the OECD and has previously worked for think tanks, governments and nonprofits in the US, the UK and Taiwan.
Collaborators
GLobal Priorities Institute
The Forethought Foundation works closely with the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University.
Effective Ventures
The Forethought Foundation is a project of Effective Ventures.
The Forethought Foundation is a project of the Effective Ventures group and works in close collaboration with the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University.