Samuel Hilton

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Senior Research Fellow

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Sam is a Senior Research Fellow at Power for Democracies with a background in prioritisation research, policy, and charity entrepreneurship. He was Director of Research at Ambitious Impact, where he led a team that evaluated and prioritised thousands of ideas for new non-profits. He has also contributed to charity evaluation research for Giving What We Can, The Life You Can Save, and Effective Altruism UK. He has also worked for a number of years in UK public policy. He was Head of Nuclear Power Safety Policy at the UK's energy department and a policy adviser at the UK Treasury. He coordinated the UK Parliament’s cross-party Future Generations group investigating long-term decision-making in democracies.

Sam was a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford.

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