Giving What We Can | Jonathan Courtney | TEDxLSHTM

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What if each of us had the power to eliminate extreme poverty throughout the world? Jonathan Courtney explains that most of us are far richer than we think, with those earning £22,000/year being in the top 4% of wage earners worldwide. And if only one in twenty of us took one simple action we could save thousands of lives and end extreme poverty for good.

Jonathan Courtney is the Associate Executive Director of Giving What We Can, an organization which looks to identify, and raise money for, the most effective charities working in the developing world. Members of Giving What We Can pledge to give 10% or more of their career income to the most effective charities. Giving What We Can has only been around for 5 years, but has over 1100 members who have taken the pledge, which will result in $450 million donated over the course of their working lives — and this is just the start! Giving What We Can already moved more than $8 million to some of the world’s most effective charities. Before working for Giving What We Can Jonathan did graduate study in philosophy at Oxford University. During his Undergraduate at Carleton University, Jonathan was moved by ethical arguments that those of us with the privilege of living in the first world ought to be doing much more to help people who are living in extreme poverty.