Our people - Future of Life Institute
Meet the board
The people behind the mission and vision of the organisation.
Anthony Aguirre
Vice President & Secretary of the Board
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Jaan Tallinn
Co-founder, Skype
Max Tegmark
President
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Meia Chita-Tegmark
Vice President & Board Treasurer
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Victoria Krakovna
Research Scientist, DeepMind
Meet our team
Our team represents a diverse range of expertise, having come from governance institutions, industry and academia, as well as a range of disciplines, including the behavioural sciences, medicine, machine learning, engineering, law and design.
Akhil Deo
Social Media Manager
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Andrea Berman
Grants Manager
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Anna Hehir
Program Manager for Autonomous Weapons Systems
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Anna Yelizarova
Special Projects Lead
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Carlos Ignacio Gutierrez
Policy Researcher
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Claudia Prettner
EU Representative
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David E. Nicholson
Manager, Future of Life Award
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Emilia Javorsky MD, MPH
Director of Multistakeholder Engagements
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Gus Docker
Podcast Host & Director
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Mark Brakel
Director of Policy
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Richard Mallah
Technical AI Consultant
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Risto Uuk
Policy Researcher
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Taylor Jones
Website Manager
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Will Jones
Editorial Manager
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Meet our external advisors
Input from our advisors helps to ensure that our approach to executing our mission is well-informed, strategic and adaptable.
Alan Alda
Actor, Writer, Director & Science Communicator
Alan Guth
Professor of Physics, MIT
Christof Koch
Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Elon Musk
Founder, SpaceX and Tesla Motors
Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, MIT Center for Digital Business, MIT
Francesca Rossi
IBM Research and University of Padova
Frank Wilczek
Professor of Physics, MIT
George Church
Professor of Genetics, Harvard University
Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal, Co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Director, Narrator & Science Communicator
Sandra Faber
Professor Emerita of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz
Saul Perlmutter
Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley