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Global Catastrophic Risks Conference -
Speakers

Mr Gary Ackerman, Research Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START); Director of the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS)

Professor Fred Adams , Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Dr Milan Ćirković, Research Associate of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade (Serbia) and a Professor of Cosmology at the Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad (Serbia)

Mr Joseph Cirincione , President, Ploughshares Fund

Professor Arnon Dar , Naite and Beatrice Sherman Professor of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Dr Dave Frame , James Martin 21st Century School Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for the Environment , University of Oxford

Professor Robin Hanson , Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University; Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Dr Rafaela Hillerbrand , James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Dr James Hughes , Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET); Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning and Visiting Lecturer in Public Policy, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Dr Michelangelo Mangano , Senior theoretical physicist at CERN, the European Centre for Particle Physics

Dr David Morrison , Senior scientist, NASA Astrobiology Institute

Professor Bill Napier , Honorary Professor, Institute for Astrobiology, Cardiff University

Dr Ali Nouri , Research Associate, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University

Toby Ord , Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Professor J Oxford , St Bart's and the Royal London Hospitals and Retroscreen Virology Ltd

Chris Phoenix , co-founder (with Mike Treder) and Director of Research of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

Dr William Potter , Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)

Dr Anders Sandberg , James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Professor Steve Rayner , Director of the James Martin Institute, and James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization

Dr Peter Taylor , Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford

Sir Crispin Tickell , Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization

Mike Treder , co-founder and Executive Director, Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)

Professor Jonathan Wiener , William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy Studies at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)

Professor Christopher Wills , Professor of Biological Sciences, University of California

Eliezer Yudkowsky , Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence