Roxanne has worked for over a decade in international policy, global health, and nonprofit leadership, with several years focused on global catastrophic and existential risks. She has advised government stakeholders on AI and other emerging technologies, security, and partnerships through her work at Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and private security companies. While working in this field, Roxanne founded the Network on Emerging Threats, an initiative that helped build and connect a community of professionals dedicated to policy on global catastrophic risks.
Now Roxanne works in global development as the co-director and co-founder of Spiro, which works to prevent tuberculosis in Pakistan. Spiro is a product of the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program and received GiveWell support within its first two years. Roxanne is an early Giving What We Can pledger, serves on the board of the Kenyan nonprofit Begin Life Safely, and was a ground-floor employee at the Centre for Effective Altruism.
Roxanne has an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a BS in Economics from Tulane University.
