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Lewis Bollard

Disciplines:
politics/policy
ethics/effective altruism
philanthropy/open philanthropy
animal welfare

Summary

New Zealand-American animal welfare policy analyst — strategy lead at Open Philanthropy's Farm Animal Welfare program — the most influential funder working to reduce factory farming through strategic philanthropy.

Core Contribution

Creates the strategic funding infrastructure for farm animal welfare as a serious EA cause area — Bollard's work at Open Philanthropy has directed hundreds of millions of dollars toward corporate campaigns to eliminate cage confinement, reducing animal suffering at a scale that no previous animal welfare movement achieved.

Notable Works & Achievements

Farmed Animal Funders newsletter

Open Philanthropy grant writeups

Historical Influences

Peter Singer Effective altruism movement

Intellectual Lineage

Wellington, New ZealandVictoria UniversityHarvard Law Open Philanthropy

Contemporaries & Peers

Peter Singer Will MacAskill Dustin Moskovitz

Minds Influenced

Animal welfare philanthropy

Intellectual Posterity

Open Philanthropy farm animal welfare programCorporate cage-free campaigns

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