EA - New CSER Director: Prof Matthew Connelly by HaydnBelfield

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: New CSER Director: Prof Matthew Connelly, published by HaydnBelfield on May 17, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University is getting a new Director – Professor Matthew Connelly will be our Director from July 2023. Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, our Interim Director, is staying at CSER and will be focussing more on AI governance and safety research.Prof Connelly is currently a Professor of international and global history at Columbia University, and for the last seven years has been Co-Director of its social science research centre, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. He has significant policy experience as a consultant for the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the Department of Homeland Security and Senate committees. He is the author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets and Fatal Misconception (an Economist and Financial Times book of the year). His next book is on “the history of the end of the world”, a subject on which he has taught multiple courses.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.