Max Ghenis
I'm the co-founder and CEO of PolicyEngine, a tech nonprofit that computes the impacts of public policy (policyengine.org). I'm also the founder and president of the UBI Center, a think tank researching universal basic income policies (ubicenter.org).
I first got into EA in 2012: I worked at Google at the time, and Google.org made a grant to GiveDirectly. I've since taken the GWWC pledge and focused my giving on GiveDirectly and GiveWell. I was active in Google's EA group and also MIT's when I went there for grad school in 2020.
I'm also the founder of Ventura County YIMBY, and a volunteer California state coordinator for Citizens' Climate Lobby, a grassroots organization advocating for a national carbon fee-and-dividend policy.
Posts
MacKenzie Scott's $26 billion, in QALYs: an interactive, evidence-weighted CEA
by Max Ghenis @ 2026-07-12 | +11 | 0 comments
by Max Ghenis @ 2026-07-12 | +11 | 0 comments
Interactive replication of GiveWell's cost-effectiveness model
by Max Ghenis @ 2026-02-13 | +80 | 0 comments
by Max Ghenis @ 2026-02-13 | +80 | 0 comments
GiveCalc: Open-source tool to calculate the true cost of charitable giving
by Max Ghenis, Daphne Hansell @ 2025-12-02 | +22 | 0 comments
by Max Ghenis, Daphne Hansell @ 2025-12-02 | +22 | 0 comments
GiveCalc: A new tool to calculate the true cost of US charitable giving
by Max Ghenis @ 2024-12-03 | +55 | 0 comments
by Max Ghenis @ 2024-12-03 | +55 | 0 comments
Mortality, existential risk, and universal basic income
by Max Ghenis @ 2021-11-30 | +14 | 0 comments
by Max Ghenis @ 2021-11-30 | +14 | 0 comments