Episode Details

The Board of Effective Altruism UK is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Director, Gergő Gáspár.

EA UK works to support and strengthen the effective altruism community across the UK, helping people increase their impact. Gergő joins EA UK at a time when there is growing demand for strong infrastructure to support the UK EA ecosystem.

Background

Gergő's academic background is in psychology, and he has been working in community building and fieldbuilding roles since 2019. He began by organising a university group called EA ELTE, which later grew into EA Budapest and eventually into EA Hungary, a national group. He moved into full-time community building work in 2021 as this work scaled. In 2022, he founded AI Safety Hungary.

For the past two years, Gergő has also been a part-time Director at the European Network for AI Safety (ENAIS), working on coordination and capacity-building across Europe. In parallel, he co-founded Amplify, an EA-aligned digital marketing agency focused on supporting fieldbuilding organisations. He also writes the blog Building Capacity, which focuses on fieldbuilding strategy, careers, and marketing in EA and adjacent spaces.

Earlier in his career, Gergő was a volunteer charity analyst and analysis coordinator at SoGive [...]

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Outline:

(00:34) Background

(01:44) Focus at EA UK

(02:02) A note from Gergő

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First published:
February 12th, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Jn2PPt4aLZWDafiz4/announcing-the-new-director-of-ea-uk

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.