International Development Speaker Series |
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Photo courtesy Centre for Effective Altruism website
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Effective Altruism and Development
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Speaker
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Sebastian Farquhar
Executive Director,
Global Priorities Project
Centre for Effective Altruism |
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RAND Corporation
Cambridge Office
Westbrook Centre, Milton Road
Cambridge, UK
Santa Monica Office
Videoconf. Room 1218
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, Calif.
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When
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Monday, Apr. 11, 2016
5–6:00 p.m. BST
9–10:00 a.m. PST
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Program
Effective altruism is the philosophy of using evidence and analysis to do the most good. The fact that we live in a world where some interventions are many orders of magnitude more cost-effective than others makes this a moral priority.
In recent years, a growing movement has been bringing together many of the ideas circulating in development and policy communities about how to make the world a better place. In this talk, I introduce the philosophical foundations of effective altruism and show how we can start to apply it to charity, career choice, and policy.
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Speaker
Seb Farquhar joined the Centre for Effective Altruism to establish the Global Priorities Project, a think tank developing policy inspired by effective altruism. He previously worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. where he focused on the public and social sector. Before that, he co-founded 80,000 Hours, which gives career advice to high-potential young people interested in making a difference, and wrote the world’s first ever statement of what effective altruism was. Farquhar has a Masters degree in physics and philosophy from Oxford.
Farquhar will be speaking from RAND's Cambridge office via videoconference with Santa Monica. Coffee and snacks will be served in both offices.
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Learn More
In Santa Monica, please join us in videoconference room 1218. If you are based elsewhere, you can connect via webmeeting and phone: Login to https://webmeetingext.rand.org/idssmeeting and dial in 1-800-747-5150 (passcode: 3269008#).
To learn more about IDSS visit us online. IDSS is sponsored by Pardee RAND Graduate School and several RAND research units: RAND Labor and Population, RAND International, RAND Health, and RAND Education.
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