Luke Freeman

I’m Luke Freeman, COO of Good Ancestors, an Australian policy organisation working on this century’s biggest challenges such as AI safety, pandemic prevention, and catastrophic disaster policy.

Most of my time is spent on AI safety policy. I believe we’re in a narrow window where the policy decisions we make about advanced AI systems will matter enormously, and that Australia has an opportunity to play a role here.

The thread through my career has been trying to be a force for good — figuring out how to do useful things well and make them count. I led Giving What We Can as CEO for 4.5 years, helping grow a global community of people committed to effective, significant giving. Before that I worked in mostly tech for a decade where I was on the founding team at Sendle (Australia’s first tech B-Corp), co-founder  and CEO of Positly, and did various marketing and growth roles across the private and public sectors.

My studies were in media, technology, and communications, where I wrote my thesis on political communication and deliberative democracy.

I’m based in Sydney, where I’m dad to two boys (and two cats).