The FRI Team
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Philip Tetlock
President, Chief Scientist
Philip Tetlock is a PIK (Penn Integrates Knowledge) Professor, cross-appointed in the School of Arts and Science and Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Expert Political Judgment (2005) and Superforecasting (2015)—and of 100+ peer-reviewed articles that have been cited 100+ times. Phil co-created the Good Judgment Project, the winning research team in IARPA’s series of geopolitical forecasting tournaments, and is a co-founder and advisor of Good Judgment Inc.
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Josh Rosenberg
CEO
Josh works on increasing the relevance of forecasting for policymakers and managing research projects at FRI. He is also a part-time Senior Advisor at GiveWell, where he spent several years as a manager of the research team, a co-lead on experimental grantmaking, and the lead hiring manager for the research and content editing teams.
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Ezra Karger
Research Director
Ezra is an applied microeconomist in the research group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he develops methods for forecasting unresolvable questions and constructing high-frequency indices that track policy-relevant economic indicators. He was previously an accurate research subject in IARPA’s ACE, HFC, and FOCUS forecasting tournaments.
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Avital Morris
Research Analyst
Avital is a researcher and writer, particularly interested in areas where technical skill interacts with common knowledge. She has previously been a PhD student in history at Yale, taught content related to history, trading, and rationality at the Atlas Fellowship, and worked as a writer for the Center for AI Safety.
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Bridget Williams
Research Analyst
Bridget is a researcher interested in improving policy decision-making. After originally qualifying and working as a medical doctor in Australia, Bridget specialised in public health medicine, working in academia, government, and international non-governmental organisations. She is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, conducting research into effective biosecurity policy, including into the role of forecasting in developing and evaluating policies.
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Sam Glover
Research Analyst
Sam is a researcher and writer with a background in political science. He previously worked at Social Change Lab conducting research into the effectiveness of protests and social movements. He received an Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center in 2022 to write about Effective Altruism and social science. He has been forecasting since 2020, and he became a Superforecaster in 2021.
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Zach Jacobs
Data Analyst
Zach is a data analyst who, since 2019, has been working with Professor Tetlock and others at the University of Pennsylvania on various forecasting research projects. He served as a research subject and, in later stages, as a research assistant during IARPA's FOCUS forecasting tournament.
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Molly Hickman
Data Analyst
Molly is a computer scientist with a background in crowdsourced intelligence. She worked at the MITRE Corporation on test and evaluation for several forecasting projects, and now forecasts herself – she is a member of the Samotsvety forecasting team and has been a 'Pro' on INFER. Previously, Molly worked at nLine, Inc., a startup that monitors outlet-level power reliability in Sub-Saharan Africa, working to improve the reach and resilience of energy infrastructure.
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Houtan Bastani
Data Analyst
Houtan is a programmer with a background in economics. Before joining FRI, he created a forecasting platform for Bakboka where forecasts were used to inform their consulting work. He previously worked as a programmer on the Dynare project and, before that, as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board.
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Astrid Sorflaten
Operations Lead
Astrid works on maximising impact through efficient operations and project management. She has a background leading operations in early-stage startups in both the non-profit and corporate worlds. Previously, Astrid developed sustainable systems and infrastructure for a rapidly growing team at Good Law Project, a UK non-profit working to achieve change through the law.
Academic affiliates & external advisors
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Barb Mellers
Scientific advisor
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David Budescu
Research lead, Team Dynamics
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Pavel Atanasov
Research lead, Project Improbable
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Mark Himmelstein
Research lead, Forecasting Proficiency Test
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Michael Page
Senior advisor
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Philipp Schoenegger
Advisor
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Elie Hassenfeld
Advisor
Other collaborators
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Kaitlyn Coffee
Operations consultant
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Amory Bennett
Creator of Quorum Research
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Walter Frick
Contributing editor
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Tegan McCaslin
Research Consultant
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Kayla Gamin
Content editor
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Rose Hadshar
Content editor
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Taylor Smith
Content editor
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Nikolay Petrov
Research assistant
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Coralie Consigny
Research assistant
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Harrison Durland
Research assistant
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Sophie Ma Zhu
Research assistant
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Adam Kuzee
Research assistant
Board of Directors
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Jennifer Lerner
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Lyle Ungar
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Eva Vivalt
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Philip Tetlock
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Josh Rosenberg