Team
Jacob Wood
Co-founder, Director
Jacob worked as an engineer on the Internal Research and Development for Advanced Programs team at General Atomics in San Diego, California. He has worked on placing NASA payloads into space, designed hypersonic air vehicles and large scale complex underwater delivery systems.
Jacob holds a BSc and MSc in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA.
Mathias Bonde
Co-founder, Director
Mathias worked with digital policy in the European Parliament and is the Chairman of Effective Altruism Denmark. Before entering policy, he worked as a software consultant doing multiple projects for the Danish government.
Mathias holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen.
Joanna Wiaterek
Researcher
Joanna was the global coordinator at Just Love and community liaison at Christians for Impact where she worked on social justice and global poverty issues. She previously interned for a Polish member of the European Parliament.
Joanna graduated from the University of Cambridge where she studied Human, Social and Political Sciences.
Barend Bos
Netherlands Campaign Strategist
Barend is a senior strategic advisor and interim-manager for non-profit organizations working in The Netherlands. During his career in the Dutch civil service, he worked as teamlead and parliamentary advisor to the minister of Finance and as personal advisor to a Director-General at the Ministry of Education.
Barend holds a Bsc in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and a MPhil in Public Administration from Leiden University
Nayaaz Hashim
MENA Researcher
Nayaaz is a student at the University of Oxford studying Arabic and Classics.
Nayaaz has worked with activist education on genocide and mass atrocities. He served as the Charities Representative for his college’s Common Room, coordinating philanthropic efforts.
Robert Praas
Netherlands Researcher
Robert has an academic background with a focus on Econometrics and Business Economics.
Previously, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Impact Centre Erasmus and as Strategy & Operations Analyst at Rainforest Connection.
Advisors
Michael Eddy
Michael is the director of investments & accountability at Stanford Impact Labs.
Michael has a background in research, policy, and practice. He co-founded Instiglio, which has directed over $300 million to impactful projects. He served as the first VP of Analytics at the Global Innovation Fund and has advised GiveWell and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Varsha Venugopal
Varsha is the co-founder of Suvita, a charity working towards a world in which every child has access to basic vaccinations.
Varsha has more than 15 years of experience setting up and running development projects and programs in global institutions such as the World Bank and the Open Society Foundation.
Parth Ahya
Parth Ahya is an Associate at Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. He leads programs on market shaping and talent mobility and supports across a portfolio of programs, including Innovation Fellows and S&T Policy. A common theme across these efforts is building platforms to solve market failures at scale.
Prior to his current role, Parth founded Taimaka, a Nigeria-based nonprofit which treats acute malnutrition in kids and develops innovations to do it better. Parth graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology (First Class Honours) from the University of Oxford.
Patrick Stadler
Patrick is the director of communications at Charity Entrepeneuship and Coordinator at Pour Demain.
Patrick previously co-founded New Incentives, a GiveWell-incubated charity. He was a political advisor for Switzerland’s economic development agency where he participated in the negotiations on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. He also worked on strategic communications in the context of peacebuilding and mediation at the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in New York.
Nick Laing
Nick is the Executive Director and co-founder of OneDay Health, an organization working to stand up health centers in the most remote areas of northern Uganda.
Nick first became passionate about truly unreached areas after seeing the huge numbers of rural citizens in Northern Uganda not covered by either the private or public healthcare system. Nicolas initiated and managed the initial pilot of 4 OneDay health centers, and looks forward to overseeing the expansion of OneDay Health in Uganda and beyond to treat hundreds of thousands of unserved patients.
