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CEEALAR (Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research) is an EA-aligned residential hub supporting researchers and practitioners working on global challenges including AI safety and existential risk. This page lists the team, trustees, and advisors involved in running the organization.

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Summary

This page presents the leadership, management, trustees, and advisors of CEEALAR, an effective altruism-oriented residential research and community hub. The organization aims to support researchers and practitioners tackling major global challenges, including existential risks. Key figures include founder Greg Colbourn and advisors connected to prominent EA organizations like Nonlinear Fund, Charity Entrepreneurship, and SoGive.

Key Points

  • •CEEALAR is evolving into a professionalized EA incubator offering outcome-driven programs, strategic partnerships, and alumni networks.
  • •The team includes advisors with deep EA roots, including co-founders of EA France, Nonlinear Fund, and Effective Altruism UK.
  • •Trustees bring expertise in finance, nonprofit accounting, and EA organizational coaching.
  • •The organization focuses on community-building, existential risk research support, and fostering high-performance collaborative groups.
  • •Greg Colbourn, the founder, has been involved in EA since its early days, signing the Giving What We Can pledge in 2010.

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 Attila Ujvari 

 Executive Director 

 Attila brings a unique blend of strategic vision, entrepreneurial drive, and community-building expertise to lead CEEALAR's transformation into a high-impact EA hub. With extensive experience in R&D leadership at global organizations, the startup ecosystem, education, customer service, and military service background, he specializes in creating environments where talent, ambition, and purpose align.  

 Under his leadership, CEEALAR is evolving into a professionalized incubator—a genuinely welcoming space where people want to stay—offering outcome-driven programs, strategic partnerships, alumni networks, and comprehensive support for effective altruism researchers and practitioners. 

 His vision is to build an adaptive organization that enables individuals to address the most significant problems of their time. Regardless of what the future brings, as long as there are humans, there will always be a need for community—for discovering who we are, finding purpose, fostering collaboration essential to tackling global challenges, and cultivating dedicated people to work on solutions as they evolve. 

 Our Managers 

 David Staley 

 David is an a utodidact, endlessly curious and passionate about (too) many things, and has spent over a decade trying to piece together a functional understanding of the global systems that are shaping our future. Now focused on the very local systems and dynamics that shape and support communities like CEEALAR. 

 Elisa Paka 

 Elisa is a generalist with a profound interest in the root causes of catastrophic and existential risks. She is passionate about enhancing individual and collective capacities for interpersonal interactions, and fostering sustainable, high-performance groups and communities. She also has a long-standing interest in contemplative and relational practices. 

 Our trustees 

 Greg Colbourn 
 Founder 

 Greg has been involved in EA since the early days of the movement, signing the Giving What We Can pledge in 2010. 

 Dušan D. Nešić 

 Dušan is a professor of Finance and Economics at Emlyon Business School and a consultant in the fields of Communication, Operations, and Education. He is a systems thinker with a passion for making the world a better place. In the past, he has volunteered with AIESEC, and he is the President of the Rotary Club Belgrade-Dedinje. He has founded EA Serbia and SpEAk and coaches EA Organizations on how to communicate their knowledge efficiently. 

 Kyle Smith 

 Kyle is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Mississippi State University. He holds a PhD in Accounting from the University of Alabama, with a research focus on nonprofit accounting. He primarily studies private foundations and how donors utilize accounting reports, and he is working on ways to integrate EA ideas on effective giving into his research. 

 Our advisors 

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