Toby Ord

Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Title	Description	People	Date
Is the Planet Full?	Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full.	Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord, Yadvinder Malhi	17 February, 2015
Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve?	How do we know when our donations are helping, and how much they are helping? Are charities roughly equally good, or are some much more effective than others? Toby Ord and Harry Shannon discuss effective philanthropy from different angles.	Toby Ord, Harry Shannon	6 March, 2013
Giving What We Can	From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr Toby Ord, a practical ethics researcher and founder of Giving What We Can, explains why he has pledged to donate more than £10,000 per year - an estimated £1 million over his career - to development charities.	Toby Ord	20 October, 2010
Probing the Improbable	In this lecture, Toby Ord discusses the philosophical questions surrounding the risk of a global catastophe as well as the implications of a larger Hadron Collider.	Toby Ord	17 August, 2009