I am currently the Director of Impactful Government Careers—an organisation focused on helping individuals find, secure, and excel in high impact civil service careers. My main interests are in improving institutional decision making as I believe even small changes could have substantial benefits for humanity.
I’ve spent the last 5 years working in the heart of the UK Government, with 4 of those at HM Treasury. My roles have included:
Head of Development Policy, HM Treasury
Head of Strategy, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
Senior Policy Advisor, Strategy and Spending for Official Development Assistance, HM Treasury
These roles have involved: advising UK Ministers on policy, spending, and strategy issues relating to international development; assessing the value for money of proposed high-value development projects; developing the 2021 CDEI Strategy and leading the organisational change related to this.
I have recently completed an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Sciences at UCL, where I have focused my research on probabilistic reasoning and improving individual and group decision-making processes. My final research project involved an experimental study into whether a short course (2 hours) on Bayesian reasoning could improve individual’s single-shot accuracy when forecasting geopolitical events. On the side, a colleague and me run a small project helping to improve predictive reasoning: https://www.daymark-di.com/
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!
Out of interest, have CE looked into more specific testing of which of those traits best predict success? For instance, by reviewing which of the CE incubated charities have been most successful and if there were personality traits (I assume recorded at the time of co-founder recruitment) that were disproportiately present?
I respect 27 charities is still too small of a sample size to be reliable as a data set, but it could be analysis which could be built upon as the numbers of charities that were incubated grew and matured.