Centre for Long-Term Resilience

About Us

Our Approach and Beliefs

We believe that extreme risks pose some of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century, and want to work with a wide range of people and organisations who share our goals. As a result, we aim to collaborate with a broad coalition of policymakers, academics, think tanks and private-sector risk experts.

We draw our inspiration from a wide range of sources which include:

• The academic disciplines of global catastrophic risk and existential risk; 
• Private sector risk management best practice; 
• The policy areas of technology governance, civil service reform and global health security; 

Some of the core ideas of effective altruism (in particular, its focus on trying to solve important, neglected and tractable problems) and social justice (in particular, concern for the potential victims of extreme risk events like Covid-19).​

Our Work

We focus on two areas of risk where effective governance today could substantially mitigate both current and future threats:

• Artificial intelligence (AI), including risks arising from unethical uses of AI, from AI systems behaving in unintended ways in high-stakes domains, and from the broader impacts of AI on the economy and society.
• Biosecurity, including risks arising from naturally-occurring pandemics, laboratory leaks, bioweapons ​​and ‘dual-use’ research (advances that can be used for harm as well as good).

A resilient world is one which has systems in place to anticipate, mitigate and respond to all extreme risks. To help build this resilience, we also focus on Risk Management more broadly — the process of both transforming risk governance, and of identifying, assessing and mitigating all extreme risks.

We help governments and other institutions transform resilience to extreme risks by:

• Helping decision-makers and the wider public to understand extreme risks and what can be done about them.
• Providing expert advice and red-teaming on policy decisions. 
• Convening cross-sector conversations and workshops related to extreme risks.
• Developing and advocating for policy recommendations and effective risk management frameworks and systems.
• Providing an exchange for specialist knowledge, including by facilitating expert placements into government.

Perks and Benefits

The salary comes with a generous benefits package which includes the following:

• 28 days annual leave, plus public holidays
• £3,000 annual learning and development budget
• £5,000 yearly bonus (before tax) for mental health and well-being, for you to spend at your discretion
• A pension contribution scheme (up to 7% employer-matched contribution)
• Private health insurance
• Generous parental leave

It also comes with a commitment from CLTR to care deeply about your well-being, career development and overall experience working with us, and to respect your preferred working patterns wherever possible.