I just wanted to add some data about two of your empirical claims about the prevalence of native English speakers in leadership positions:
Native English speakers are overrepresented in EA’s thought leadership
One very crude measure of this is to look at the attendees of the 2023 coordination forum. AFAICT, based on the LinkedIn profiles of the 31 attendees that are public: 22 are native English speakers, and 7 are not (two I am not sure about). Hence ~22% are non-native English speakers.
The monopoly on funding does not facilitate this – my impression is that it is especially true in community building. Indeed, homogeneity in culture and ways of thinking might strengthen itself with grantmakers selecting projects and people who are closer to them [...]
The three funders I looked up are OP, CEA, and EA Funds. The percentage of non-native English speakers is slightly higher than the percentage attending the coordination forum (7 out of 23 people are non-native English speakers, ~30%):
On the OP CB team (“GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS CAPACITY BUILDING”), four out of six people are native English speakers;
On the CEA Groups team, three out of six people are native English speakers;
At EA Funds, four out of four grant managers are native English speakers, and five out of seven grant advisors are native English speakers;
Thank you Jonathan, that is super helpful to add actual data!
I’ll add, about 2. CEA Groups Team, that out of 40ish people at CEA (the whole team), only 4 are non native English speakers, and 3 of them are in the Groups Team.
Thanks for writing this, Alix!
I just wanted to add some data about two of your empirical claims about the prevalence of native English speakers in leadership positions:
One very crude measure of this is to look at the attendees of the 2023 coordination forum.
AFAICT, based on the LinkedIn profiles of the 31 attendees that are public: 22 are native English speakers, and 7 are not (two I am not sure about). Hence ~22% are non-native English speakers.
The three funders I looked up are OP, CEA, and EA Funds. The percentage of non-native English speakers is slightly higher than the percentage attending the coordination forum (7 out of 23 people are non-native English speakers, ~30%):
On the OP CB team (“GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS CAPACITY BUILDING”), four out of six people are native English speakers;
On the CEA Groups team, three out of six people are native English speakers;
At EA Funds, four out of four grant managers are native English speakers, and five out of seven grant advisors are native English speakers;
Thank you Jonathan, that is super helpful to add actual data!
I’ll add, about 2. CEA Groups Team, that out of 40ish people at CEA (the whole team), only 4 are non native English speakers, and 3 of them are in the Groups Team.