Team
Joel Tan
Founder & Managing Director
Joel is a long-time effective altruist, having been a member of Giving What We Can since 2014. At CEARCH, Joel is responsible for high-level strategy, as well as for research and grantmaking in the areas of global health & development (link) and EA meta.
Previously a policy officer in the Singapore government, he subsequently worked as a private sector consultant specializing in political, economic and policy research, before founding CEARCH in 2022. A graduate from the University of Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Joel completed his thesis on meta-ethics – specifically, on grounding objective value in non-instrumental desire.
Stan Pinsent
Director of Research
Stan is interested in understanding cost-effectiveness through a combination of qualitative research and quantitative modeling. While building a diverse portfolio of research work, he is beginning to introduce distributional models that incorporate uncertainty. At CEARCH, Stan spearheads research and grantmaking in the areas of mental health (link) and longtermism.
A graduate from Oxford with a degree in Mathematics, Stan found his way back into the classroom after university. As a teacher in London, he launched a podcast About Learning, exploring big and controversial ideas in education. His desire to seek more ambitious, evidence-based paths to change led him to CEARCH. Stan enjoys active hobbies like cooking, frisbee and cycle-touring.
Advisory Board
Joey Savoie
Charity Entrepreneurship
Joey is the co-founder and co-executive director of Charity Entrepreneurship, which incubates high-impact charities while also training grantmakers and researchers to maximize their effectiveness. Prior to Charity Entrepreneurship, Joey co-founded Charity Science, an organization which fundraised for high-impact charities, as well as Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioural nudges.
Peter Wildeford
Rethink Priorities
Peter is the co-founder and co-CEO of Rethink Priorities, which pursues research on pressing questions, with the goal of identifying tractable and neglected opportunities for high impact across different cause areas. Prior to Rethink Priorities, he was a data scientist in industry. Peter is also an avid hobbyist forecaster, and consistently ranks highly in forecasting competitions.
Myron Krueger
Open Philanthropy
Myron is an experienced operations and human resources expert, with a proven track record of building out these functions at early-stage startups such as Alvea and Omnipresent. Prior to that, he was at the venture capital firm Entrepreneur First as an analyst. Presently, Myron works for Open Philanthropy in grant operations.
Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research 