LONGVIEW - Key Persons


Aidan O'Gara

Job Titles:
  • AI Programme Officer

Ajeya Cotra

Job Titles:
  • SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER, POTENTIAL RISKS from ADVANCED AI
Ajeya leads Open Philanthropy's grantmaking on technical research that could help to clarify and reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI.

Andrew Player

Job Titles:
  • Head of Grants Management & Compliance
Andrew manages Longview's grants system and ensures compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.

Carl Robichaud

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Weapons Policy Programme Director
Carl leads Longview's programme on nuclear weapons policy.

Cate Hall

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvea
Cate Hall is a founder and Chief Operating Officer of Alvea, which set the record for the fastest start-up to take a new drug into phase 1 clinical trials.

Charlotte Stix

Job Titles:
  • FELLOW at the LEVERHULME CENTRE for the FUTURE of INTELLIGENCE at CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Charlotte leads OpenAI's policy engagements with the EU and is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

Claudia Leimgruber

Job Titles:
  • Events Director
Claudia is jointly responsible for Longview's event strategy and production.

Dan Hendrycks

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Director of the Center for AI Safety
Dan is the Founder and Director of the Center for AI Safety.

Dr Andrew Snyder-Beattie

Job Titles:
  • PROGRAM OFFICER at OPEN PHILANTHROPY
Andrew leads Open Philanthropy's programme on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, which has made grants totalling over $100 million.

Dr Zach Freitas-Groff

Job Titles:
  • Senior Programme Associate

Gavin Weinberg

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff
Gavin works closely with the CEO, focusing on organisational strategy and process.

Katie Hearsum - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
Katie oversees operations systems and events at Longview.

Kit Harris

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff at METR
Kit is Chief of Staff at METR, a research nonprofit that works on assessing whether cutting-edge AI systems could pose catastrophic risks to society.

Matthew Gentzel

Job Titles:
  • Nuclear Weapons Policy Programme Officer

Meredith Wald

Job Titles:
  • Events Director
Meredith is jointly responsible for Longview's event strategy and production. Prior to joining Longview Philanthropy, she managed events for a variety of Fortune 500 firms in the financial services, commercial real estate, and private equity industries. Her events experience spans multi-day conferences, board meetings, trade shows, high-end dinners and cocktail receptions, and luxury incentive trips. Meredith also pursues her personal passion for philanthropy by volunteering at Nourishing Hope and serving as Co-President of their Young Leaders Board. She holds a degree in Art History with honours and French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Natalie Cargill - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • President
Natalie works with philanthropists individually to plan and execute their giving plans. Prior to founding Longview Philanthropy, she was a barrister at Serjeants' Inn Chambers (London Chambers of the Year 2018), and has worked with the United Nations Human Rights Council. Natalie has presented on philanthropy at the University of Cambridge and King's College London, as well as at Web Summit, the world's largest technology conference, on the BBC, and to several private family office groups. Natalie delivered a TED talk on effective philanthropy in April 2023. She holds a double first-class degree from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the highest score across all humanities subjects at Lincoln College.

Neel Nanda

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH ENGINEER at GOOGLE DEEPMIND
Neel leads the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind: taking a trained neural network and trying to reverse engineer the algorithms it learned.

Prof. Hilary Greaves

Job Titles:
  • PROFESSOR in PHILOSOPHY at OXFORD UNIVERSITY
  • Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford
Hilary is a professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford and the former director of the Global Priorities Institute.

Prof. Kevin M. Esvelt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at MIT 's Media Lab
Kevin is an associate professor at MIT's Media Lab, where his research lab focuses on advancing biotechnology safely.

Prof. Will MacAskill

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford
  • PROFESSOR in PHILOSOPHY at OXFORD UNIVERSITY
Will is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford, author of the New York Times bestseller What We Owe the Future, and a co-founder of the Global Priorities Institute and three international nonprofits.

Rohin Shah

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH SCIENTIST at GOOGLE DEEPMIND
Rohin co-leads the Scalable Alignment team at Google DeepMind, which aims to improve AI safety by ensuring that as AI capabilities scale up, AI systems increasingly "try" to do what the designer intended for them to do.

Ruth Wallis

Job Titles:
  • Operations Associate
Ruth supports the team at Longview by ensuring the smooth running of internal systems.

Simran Dhaliwal - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Simran coordinates Longview Philanthropy's research, grantmaking, and advising work.

Suryansh Mehta

Job Titles:
  • Research Communications Officer
Suryansh specialises in communicating cutting-edge research on emerging technologies to Longview's advisees.