Stanford University

Leadership & Staff

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Michael McFaul Served under Secretary Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia

• Professor, International Relations

Andreas Paepcke Stanford University research scientist

• Senior Research Scientist and Director for Data Analytics

Fei-Fei Li Professor, Stanford University

• Professor, Computer Science

Hideo Mabuchi Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University

• Professor of Applied Physics ('07→?)

Richard M Schoen Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

• Professor ('87→?)

Persis Drell Provost and chief academic officer, Stanford University

• Provost (Feb 1 '17→?)

Ramin Toloui Biden Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State; Stanford University

• Professor of Practice, International Finance

Stephen Quake Professor of biotechnology, Stanford University

• Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Applied Physics

Russell A Berman Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University; senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

• Professor of Humanities

Bruce McCandliss Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience and Education at Stanford University

• Professor ('14→?)*

Board Members

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Tom Steyer Farallon Capital Management. 2020 Dem presidential candidate. Backs NextGen Climate Action, Trump impeachment

• Member, Board of Trustees

Penny Pritzker Former Commerce secretary; Hyatt owner; Obama advisor; billionaire

• Trustee

Robert D Rodriguez Founder & Managing Principal, SINET | Advisor, Chertoff Group

• Advisor, Computer Science Department

Mindy Rogers Bain & Company; Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank

• Member, Board of Trustees (Dec 1 '13→?)

Mary Barra CEO, General Motors

• Trustee

Ann Huntress Lamont Managing Partner - Oak Investment Partners

• Trustee

James G Coulter Venture capitalist billionaire

• Member, Board of Trustees

Robert Muse Bass Oak Hill Capital Management founder and Texan billionaire

• Member, Board of Trustees

John H Scully SPO Partners

• Member, Board of Trustees

William M Barnum Jr General Partner, Brentwood Associates, Los Angeles, CA

• Member, Board of Trustees

Donors

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Ward W Woods Jr Founding Partner of Bessemer Holdings, L.P.

• Donation · 30,000,000 USD (Feb 15 '06)

Druckenmiller Foundation "supports medical research, education, and efforts to fight poverty."

• Grant · 12,000,000 USD ('11→'12)

Silicon Valley Community Foundation $13.5 billion of assets under management.

• Grant · 10,000,000 USD ('14) [+4]

• Grant · 5,000,000 USD ('15)

• Grant · 5,000,000 USD ('11)

• Grant · 3,000,000 USD ('15)

• Grant · 2,800,000 USD ('15)

Douglas W Kimmelman Energy Capital Partners, senior partner

• Donation · 8,500,000 USD*

ExxonMobil Foundation ExxonMobil's charity giving foundation

• Donation · 120,435 USD ('11)

The C.O.U.Q. Foundation, Inc. 5019(c) 3 tied to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

• Grant · 49,981 USD ('04)

Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) Original DARPA initiative to create the interent

• Donation/Grant

Pioneer Fund Funds studies of race and intelligence, as well as eugenics

• Donation/Grant

"Hal" Harold Hohbach Palo Alto, CA based patent attorney, tech investor, and real-estate developer influential in the mid-1900s

• Donation/Grant

Koret Foundation Private foundation based in San Francisco, CA.

• Donation/Grant

Donations

Pete Buttigieg Biden DOT secretary. former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate

• Donation/Grant · 47,114 USD ('18→'20)

Virtual Human Interaction Lab Stanford University Created 2003, Virtual Reality

• Sponsor

Holdings

BioDesign Innovation Institute: In 2013, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center opened the BioDesign Innovation Institute in Jerusalem in cooperation with Stanford University

• Owner

Founders Fund II LP

• Owner

Child Organizations

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Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) Founded in 2006 by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Stanford faculty co-directors Woody Powell & Debra Meyerson

• Child Org

Global Climate and Energy Project Stanford energy institute

• Child Org

Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance Multidisciplinary center at Stanford

• Child Org

Stanford School of Law

• Child Org

Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences Stanford’s largest school

• largest school

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. Develops behavioral science program for professional development

• Child Org

School of Engineering at Stanford

• Child Org

Stanford Graduate School of Business

• Child Org

Hoover Institution Conservative think tank at Stanford

• Child Org

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Stanford research center

• Child Org

Parents

LearnSphere education data repository project of Carnegie Mellon U

• partner

Members

Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) NSF Research Center for AI Based At MIT

• Partner

Gene Sykes Investment banker at Goldman Sachs

• Trustee ('14→?)

Memberships

Smart Shirt Project Internet of Things Garment Collaboration - Smart Textiles / Stanford

• Partner ('20→?)*

University Blockchain Research Initiative Ripple Funded Collaboration To Advance Blockchain Development and Digital Payments

• Participant ('18→?)*

Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Collaboration of Universities and New American in "Tech for Good"

• Member*

Consortium for Policy Research in Education

• Member

Services & Transactions

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• Service/Transaction

Memex DARPA Program

• Service/Transaction

Brunswick Group LLC Brunswick is a corporate communications partnership. We provide informed advice at a senior level to businesses and other organizations around the world,

• Service/Transaction

Jeff Giesea Protégé of Peter Thiel

• Service/Transaction

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• a partner

Peter Clapman Chief Executive Officer, Governance for Owners USA Inc.

• Chair of Committee on Fund Governance

Students

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Lila Tretikov

• Student

Dan E. Caldwell Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Political Science

• PhD, Political Science [+1]

• Bachelor's Degree

Michael McFaul Served under Secretary Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia

• BA, International Relations (?→'91)

Baris Akis Turkish-born leader of a Silicon Valley venture firm - Human Capital

• Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Engineering (?→'16)

Ken Howery Cofounder, PayPal | Partner, Founders Fund; Former Ambassador to Sweden, Trump nominee to be Ambassador to Denmark

• BA, Economics (?→'98)

Tom Burt Retired - Microsoft, Menlo Park California; Microsoft Attorney

• Student

Geoffrey Ralston

• Student

Jack Poulson Government contracting researcher; Google whistleblower

• Student

Sajal Srivastava Co CEO and Co founder, TriplePoint Capital (TPC)

• MS, Engineering Economic Systems [+1]

• BA, Economics

James Ketchum Psychiatrist who conducted LSD Experiments on Soldiers

• Student

Miscellaneous Relationships

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Singularity Summit The Singularity Summit is an annual conference on science, technology, and the future co-produced by MIRI and Singularity University.

• Affiliation

Tel Aviv University

• surveillance AI partnership

Arc Institute AI-driven genomics research foundation

• partner

Alliance for Climate Education

• Affiliation

Daily Pass QR Code Health Record For Schools Developed By Microsoft

• Project ('20→?)*

Smart Textiles Swiss Company With Internet of Things Fabric

• Affiliation*

Acuitus Coding Training Company Bay Area

• Partner*

Sphere Institute Partner Organization To Acumen LLP - Database For Outcomes / Metrics Social Services

• Founded By Stanford Alumni ('96→?)*

VIPKid North America Education Research Institute

• Partner ('18→?)*

Redbird Learning Common Core Aligned Online ELA And Math Curriculum Developed At Stanford

• Developed At*