Future of Humanity Institute logo

Global Catastrophic Risks Conference -
Speakers

Mr Gary Ackerman, Research Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START); Director of the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS)

Professor Fred Adams, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Dr Milan Ćirković, Research Associate of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Professor of Cosmology at the Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)

Mr Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund

Professor Arnon Dar, Naite and Beatrice Sherman Professor of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Dr Dave Frame, James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford

Professor Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Dr Rafaela Hillerbrand, James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Dr James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET); Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning and Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Dr Michelangelo Mangano, Senior theoretical physicist at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics

Dr David Morrison, Senior scientist, NASA Astrobiology Institute

Professor Bill Napier, Honorary Professor, Institute for Astrobiology, Cardiff University

Dr Ali Nouri, Research Associate, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University

Toby Ord, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Professor J Oxford, St Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals and Retroscreen Virology Ltd

Chris Phoenix, co-founder (with Mike Treder) and Director of Research of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

Dr William Potter, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)

Dr Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the James Martin Institute, and James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization

Dr Peter Taylor, Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Sir Crispin Tickell, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization

Mike Treder, co-founder and Executive Director, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

Professor Jonathan Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Professor Christopher Wills, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California

Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence