Firat Akova
Firat Akova
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- Senior Research Fellow
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Fırat is a Senior Research Fellow and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, where his thesis focused on effective altruism. He was a Global Priorities Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute, as well as at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. He served as a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Koç University. Fırat founded Effective Altruism Turkey and served as its Director, and he is the Founder of Poedat, an academic community. He won international grant competitions for postdoctoral research and civil society projects.