Maxime Stauffer

Max Stauffer is co-founder and Co-CEO of the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance. He’s responsible for our research, facilitation, partnerships, communications, governance, and fundraising.

Previously, Max served as Senior Science-Policy Officer at the Geneva Science-Policy Interface, Senior Visiting Fellow at UN University, and co-President and head of policy research at Effective Altruism Switzerland. He’s also a World Economic Forum Expert on Complex Risks and co-founder of the Geneva Social Complexity Lab.

Max studied international relations at the University of Geneva and computational math at Johns Hopkins University, and holds a particular interest in evidence-informed policymaking, risk governance, and decision-making under uncertainty.