I research global catastrophic risks at Founders Pledge, a nonprofit philanthropic organization and community of entrepreneurs working to maximize the impact of their charitable giving. At Founders Pledge, I also manage the Global Catastrophic Risks Fund and the Patient Philanthropy Fund.

My research is broadly motivated by the question of how philanthropists and policymakers can mitigate the most extreme international security risks — including nuclear war, natural and engineered pandemics, and risks from artificial intelligence. I am also interested in probabilistic forecasting, multi-track diplomacy, great power competition, civil defense, continuity of government planning, space policy, the survivability of hotlines and other communications systems, and more. You can find some of my work under the “Research and Writing” tab of this site.

I previously worked as the Program Manager for “The Future of the Global Order: Power, Technology, and Governance,” a program at Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s global affairs think tank. I got my BA at Williams College (with a year at the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford), followed by two MPhils on a Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, one in History and Philosophy of Science and one in Politics and International Studies.