Academic research on global priorities | Eva Vivalt | EAG London 23

What is the case for academic research? How does it compare to other research and what is its role in figuring out how to do the most good? As the incoming director of the Global Priorities Institute (GPI), Dr. Vivalt will also outline her plans for the institute and discuss global priorities research more broadly.

Eva Vivalt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto and Director of GPI at the University of Oxford. Dr. Vivalt’s main research interests are in investigating stumbling blocks to evidence-based policy decisions, including methodological issues, how evidence is interpreted, and the use of forecasting. Dr. Vivalt is also a principal investigator on three guaranteed income RCTs and a co-founder of the Social Science Prediction Platform, a platform to coordinate the collection of forecasts of research results.