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- Full Name
- Toby Ord
- Born
- July 18, 1979
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- Age
- 47 years
- Zodiac Sign
- Cancer
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- 🇦🇺 Australia
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- Profession
- Business Leader
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Biography
Toby Ord is 47 years old, a business leader, from Australia.
Toby David Godfrey Ord (born July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible. He was a senior research fellow at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work focused on existential risk.
His book on the subject, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, was published in March 2020.
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