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David Janku

David founded Effective Thesis and developed the organisation as Director for 6 years. He is an analyst at the Czech Science Foundation and is currently studying for a PhD in Sociology of Science at Charles University in Prague.

Julia Michaels

Julia is Executive Director of the Center for Public University Transformation. She has more than 16 years of professional experience in the fields of higher education, institutional transformation, and policy research.

Dewi Erwan

Dewi Erwan is a co-founder of BlueDot Impact, an organisation which supports individuals to gain the knowledge, community and network needed to pursue high-impact careers.

Renan Araujo

Renan is Research Manager at Rethink Priorities' Existential Security team. He also cofounded Condor Camp, an educational nonprofit that aims at connecting the most talented Brazilian university students with high-impact opportunities to reduce existential risk.

Sven Herrmann

Sven is Head of Research Operations at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, where he helps to conduct research on how to improve the world as much as possible. His previous experience includes academic research and teaching in mathematics and computational biology.

Daniel Hnyk

Daniel is a director of engineering with experience as a developer, software architect, product manager and scrum master. He has also completed the Center for Applied Rationality's instructor training and is currently operations manager for the European Summer Program on Rationality.

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