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Staff Aaron Kavanaugh | Office Manager. Aaron manages GiveWell’s facilities, procurement, software systems, and social cohesion work. Prior to GiveWell, Aaron worked in infectious disease control for the state of California. He holds a B.A. in anthropology from UC Berkeley. Outside of work, he can be found mixing a cocktail and convincing his friends to play that new board game. Ahmed Alkhatib | Donations Specialist. Ahmed runs GiveWell's donations processing work across all funding streams. He previously worked in nonprofit administration, the tech scene, and international activism. Ahmed earned a B.S. in business administration/marketing from the University of San Francisco and an Associate of Arts degree from City College of San Francisco. Outside GiveWell, Ahmed works on humanitarian aviation advocacy, performs fun gigs on TaskRabbit, drives weekend crowds for Uber, or cooks enough food to feed an entire neighborhood. Alex Cohen | Senior Researcher. Alex leads GiveWell's work finding and conducting early-stage research on new interventions. Prior to GiveWell, Alex was the Director of Learning and Evaluation at a private foundation based in Indianapolis and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale School of Management. He holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. In his spare time, he likes to go hiking with his kids. Alicia Weng | Research Associate. Alicia focuses on researching new interventions for potential funding. Prior to GiveWell, she worked as a research assistant in health economics. She holds a B.S. in economics from MIT. In her spare time, she can be found wandering around cities or getting lost in the woods. Andrew Martin | Senior Research Associate. Andrew focuses on analyzing program costs and GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness models for top charities. Prior to GiveWell, he worked as an English teacher in South Korea and constructed housing for Habitat for Humanity. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2009 with a B.A. in English and received an M.P.A. from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2015. As a Seattle resident, Andrew is contractually obligated to enjoy hiking. Audrey Cooper | Philanthropy Advisor. Audrey advises donors on how to achieve their philanthropic goals. Before joining GiveWell, Audrey worked in development at nonprofits in Seattle and New York, with a focus on building corporate partnerships. She holds a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from The King's College. Outside of work, Audrey enjoys consuming books and coffee. Ben Bateman | Head of Growth. Ben leads GiveWell’s growth projects and website management. Prior to GiveWell, Ben worked at Indiegogo, where he launched client startups and later led Indiegogo’s expansion into the Chinese market. He holds a B.A. in English literature from Lewis & Clark College. In his spare time, he can be found outside or in a book. Caitlin McGugan | Senior Researcher. Caitlin focuses on researching questions that impact the cost-effectiveness models GiveWell uses in its grantmaking to top charities. Prior to joining GiveWell, she worked in economic consulting and researched the impacts of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries. She holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics & statistics from Williams College and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, baking, yoga, and following NBA basketball. Catherine Hollander | Senior Program Associate. Catherine works on project, information, and charity relationship management on our New Interventions team. Catherine previously worked in journalism, covering economics and health care at National Journal and serving as editorial director for Beacon, an independent funding platform for journalism. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in history. In her free time, she loves to read. Charlene Abellana | Controller. Charlene graduated from San Francisco State University in 2011 with a bachelor's in business accounting. Upon graduation, she worked as an auditor specializing in Alternative Investment Funds at Rothstein Kass and KPMG. She then worked on investments and philanthropic funds in the family office of Eric Schmidt before joining a hedge fund in San Francisco. Charlene joined GiveWell in September 2017. Daisy Hao | Senior Accountant. Daisy coordinates the accounting and financial reporting functions at GiveWell. She holds a bachelor's in business administration and a master's in professional accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining GiveWell in 2021, she worked as an audit manager at Ernst & Young. Daisy enjoys Texas barbecue and hiking in the woods with her chihuahua. Devin Jacob | Data & Technology Project Manager. Devin manages GiveWell’s website and CRM infrastructure and supports our data needs. He previously has worked in a variety of areas including IT, used-book selling, commercial fishing, freelance web development, and teaching history to college students. He is a certified Salesforce systems administrator and holds a B.A. in history from UC Berkeley and an M.A. in history from NYU, where he spent five years in a Ph.D. program but left without completing a dissertation on banishment and exile in the early British Empire. He spends a lot of time hanging out with his two cats, cooking, and reading. Elie Hassenfeld | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (President). Elie sets the strategy and oversees the work of GiveWell, with a particular emphasis on leading GiveWell's research. He previously worked in the hedge fund industry, which he left to co-found GiveWell in 2007. He has a B.A. in religion from Columbia University. He enjoys taking up (and mostly failing at) new athletic pursuits and spending time with his wife and young children. Erin Crossett | Senior Researcher. Erin leads GiveWell’s work identifying and researching new interventions, with the goal of recommending high-impact giving opportunities. She previously worked in a variety of research-related roles at Arnold Ventures, Mathematica Policy Research, and USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV). She also worked on randomized controlled trials of sanitation and social safety net programs for Innovations for Poverty Action and Georgetown University. Erin holds a Master's in International Development Policy from Georgetown University and a B.A. in International Relations from University of Rochester. She loves odd animals, Southeast Asian food, good books, and bad television. Erin Wolff | Donor Relations Associate. Erin communicates with donors about our research and donation processes and manages donor events. Erin previously worked at an insurance and benefits brokerage. She holds a B.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley. She loves costume parties and is a big fan of Frida Kahlo. Gaby Quintana | Operations Associate. Gaby helps develop, codify, and scale our processes and systems across operations, with a focus on people operations. Gaby previously worked in arts and education nonprofits in the Bay Area and independent film production. She holds a double B.A. in art history and English from Stanford University. In her spare time, she is an obsessive horror movie watcher. Grace Hultquist | Research Associate. Grace focuses on grantmaking to GiveWell's top charities. She previously worked for a global health financing nonprofit. She holds a B.A. in human biology from Stanford University. Right now, she’s either overestimating the number of books she can read at once or underestimating how long it will take her to walk somewhere. Hannah Bell | Program Associate. Hannah supports task and knowledge management on our New Interventions team. Prior to joining GiveWell, she worked in medical anthropology research and as an English teacher and academic editor. She holds a B.A. in anthropology and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of South Florida, and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from Michigan State University. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and staying busy with creative projects. Isabel Arjmand | Special Projects Officer. Isabel manages GiveWell's internal communications and other special projects. Previously, she worked on top charity research and external communications at GiveWell. She holds a B.S. in management science and engineering (policy and strategy focus) with honors in education from Stanford University. She enjoys reading lots of fiction, occasionally wobbling on roller skates, and never missing a day of the NYT crossword.