80,000 Hours — Meet the Team
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This is the 80,000 Hours team page, listing staff, founders, board, and advisors of a leading career-guidance organization focused on high-impact work including AI safety. Relevant for understanding the organizational structure behind influential EA and AI safety career advice.
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Summary
This page introduces the staff, founders, board of directors, and external advisors of 80,000 Hours, an organization that provides career guidance aimed at maximizing positive impact on the world's most pressing problems, including AI safety and existential risk. Team members come from backgrounds in academia, effective altruism, medicine, law, and technology. The page serves as an organizational transparency and credibility resource.
Key Points
- •80,000 Hours employs staff with diverse backgrounds including philosophy, physics, medicine, and AI safety research.
- •The organization is led by CEO Niel Bowerman, formerly of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute and co-founder of the Centre for Effective Altruism.
- •Staff include researchers with direct AI safety connections, such as Avital Morris who worked with the Center for AI Safety.
- •The team page reflects 80,000 Hours' role as a key institution in the effective altruism and AI safety career ecosystem.
- •The organization has a COO, Director of Growth, and various research and operations roles supporting its mission.
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On this page:
Introduction
1 Primary staff
2 Founders
3 Our Board of Directors
4 Our External Advisors
Table of Contents
1 Primary staff
2 Founders
3 Our Board of Directors
4 Our External Advisors
Primary staff
Niel Bowerman
CEO
Before joining 80,000 Hours, Niel served as Assistant Director at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, and co-founded the Centre for Effective Altruism. He holds a doctorate in physics from Oxford, and served as a climate science advisor to the Office of the President of the Maldives.
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@NielBowerman
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Aaron Gertler
Researcher
Before joining 80,000 Hours, Aaron wrote for Coefficient Giving and the Centre for Effective Altruism. He's also a semi-professional gamer who once came second in the Magic: the Gathering World Championship. His hobbies include anime and webfiction; he recommends Sousou no Frieren and the stories of Wildbow.
[email protected]
Ailbhe Treacy
Outreach Coordinator
Before joining 80,000 Hours, Ailbhe worked as a producer across theatre, TV, music, and nonprofit sectors. She holds an MSc in International Development. Outside work, she's attempting to read a book from every country in the world and enjoys exercise that asks very little of her spatial awareness.
[email protected]
Alice De Gennaro
Operations Associate
Alice received a bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and then went on to work as a research assistant at UCL. After engaging with 80,000 Hours' services, she made a career switch into operations work at high impact organisations. Outside work she loves to cook (and eat), practice yoga, and swim.
[email protected]
Arden Koehler
Web Programme Director
Before coming to 80,000 Hours, Arden got a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time.
[email protected]
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Aric Floyd
Associate Video Producer
Aric joined 80,000 Hours in 2025. Previously, he worked as a film and television actor based in Los Angeles, while on perpetual leave from undergraduate physics studies at Stanford University. He enjoys writing and playing music, and games of all kinds.
[email protected]
Ashley Meader
Business Operations Associate
Ashley holds a master's in human-computer interaction from University College Dublin and was previously a project assistant with The Unjournal. Outside of work, Ashley can be found writing, playing D&D, and falling off of bouldering walls.
[email protected]
Avital Morris
Researcher
Before joining 80,000 Hours, Avital worked as a research analyst at the Forecasting Research Institute, and as a freelance writer and researcher for organizations including the Center for AI Safety and Asterisk Magazine. She previously did graduate work in medieval Jewish history at Yale.
[email protected]
Balázs Rapi
Business Operations Specialist
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