The Effective Institutions Project is a global working group that seeks out and incubates high-impact strategies to improve institutional decision-making around the world.
Why it matters
Institutions exercise great power over our lives, both today and far into the future.
Yet on issues from COVID to climate change, our leaders too often misjudge risks, make choices based on political expediency, and fail to imagine wiser alternatives when it counts the most.
We need our institutions to do better.
Our lives may literally depend on it.
What we do
We analyze how and in what ways institutions’ decisions influence people’s lives.
We study how key institutions currently make decisions.
We identify interventions that might cause those institutions to take actions that lead to better global outcomes.
We mobilize funding and talent to execute on the most promising interventions.
Alongside all of this, we are building an interdisciplinary network of reformers to share insights, coordinate efforts, and steadily increase the odds of success over time.
Advisors
Emma Belcher
Veteran grantmaker in nuclear security; CEO, Ploughshares Fund
Lewis Bollard
Farm Animal Welfare Program Officer, Open Philanthropy
Nancy Hey
Executive Director, What Works Centre for Wellbeing
John Lavis
Directs the WHO’s Collaborating Centre for Evidence-Informed Policy
Andrea Ordóñez
Director, Southern Voice
Dave Orr
Board chair, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Nitin Pai
Founding Director, Takshashila Institution
Dan Perez
Director, North America, SRI Executive
Buddy Shah
CEO, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Jaan Tallinn
Philanthropist and investor; founder of Skype
Paul Timmers
Expert on EU policies; Oxford University research associate
Nicole Tisdale
10+ years as a senior US national security policymaker
Alex Toma
Executive Director, Peace and Security Funders Group
Jenny Xiao
Expert on US-China relations and emerging tech
Staff
Ian David Moss
Founder and Executive Director
Jam Kraprayoon
Consultant
Red Bermejo
Interim Chief Operating Officer
Collaborators and Affiliates: Shahar Avin, Alex Bavalsky, Conrad Helminger, Tim Hwang, David Manheim, Ella McIntosh, Philip Reiner, Kartik Sharma, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Gabrielle Tran
Partners
