Alexander Berger
CEO
Alexander Berger is co-founder and CEO of Coefficient Giving. He sets our strategic direction, oversees our grantmaking, and leads our work with external donors.
Before becoming CEO, Alexander served as co-CEO and led Coefficient’s work on global health and wellbeing. During his time as co-CEO and then sole CEO, he has overseen over $3 billion of giving and launched Coefficient’s first pooled funds to reduce lead exposure and accelerate economic growth.
Previously, Alexander led our initial process for selecting focus areas and hiring and training program officers. In 2011, he co-founded the project that eventually became Coefficient Giving, and in 2017 he was the first employee of the independent organization.
Alexander began his career as a research analyst at GiveWell, conducting evidence reviews and cost-effective analyses in global health. He holds an M.A. in education policy and a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction.
Read more from Alexander in this interview with Vox.
Featured Writing
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Our Progress in 2024 and Plans for 2025
2024 marked 10 years since we launched Open Philanthropy. We spent our first decade learning (about grantmaking, cause selection, and the history of philanthropy), and growing our team and expertise to be able to effectively deploy billions of dollars from Good Ventures, our main funder. Our early grants — and some grantees we’ve helped get started — are now old enough that we can see material signs of our impact in the world.
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GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat
Editor’s note: This article was published under our former name, Open Philanthropy. Some content may be outdated. You can see our latest writing here. Our thinking on prioritizing across different causes has evolved as we’ve made more grants. This post explores one aspect of that: the high bar set by...
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Technical Updates to Our Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritization Framework
In 2019, we wrote a blog post about how we think about the "bar" for our giving and how we compare different kinds of interventions to each other using back-of-the-envelope calculations, all within the realm of what we now call Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW). This post updates that one and: Explains how we previously…