William MacAskill

About the author

William David MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher and author who is one of the originators of the effective altruism movement. He was a Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford and co-founded Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism, and 80,000 Hours. MacAskill is the author of Doing Good Better (2015) and What We Owe the Future (2022), and the co-author of Moral Uncertainty (2020).