Elie Hassenfeld
Elie Hassenfeld is an American nonprofit chief executive. He is the co-founder, with Holden Karnofsky in 2007, and CEO of the charity evaluator GiveWell. He also manages the Global Health and Development Fund at EA Funds, a project of the Centre for Effective Altruism.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Hassenfeld graduated with a B. A. in Religion from Columbia University in 2004.[2] After graduation, he joined the investment management company Bridgewater Associates as a hedge fund analyst, where he met Holden Karnofsky.[3] Hassenfeld and Karnofsky both wanted to donate money to charity and to do so in a way that maximised the impact of their donations; they were surprised when they could find so little information on how to do this. To solve this problem, in 2007, Hassenfeld and Karnofsky founded the nonprofit GiveWell, with the intention to establish a list of charities that could be recommended based on the evidence of their effectiveness.[4] Their work on establishing GiveWell was featured in the philosopher Peter Singer's 2009 book The Life You Can Save.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Global Health and Development Fund". Effective Altruism Funds. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
- ↑ "Our People". GiveWell. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
- ↑ Strom, Stephanie (2007-12-20). "2 Young Hedge-Fund Veterans Stir Up the World of Philanthropy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
- ↑ Aizenman, Nurith (2016-11-29). "Choosing A Charity: Should You Go With Your Heart Or Your Head?". NPR. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
- ↑ Brakman Reiser, Dana (Summer 2018). "The Rise of Philanthropy LLCs" (PDF). Stanford Social Innovation Review. Vol. 16 no. 3. p. 20. Retrieved 2022-08-20.
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