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Principal Researcher, AI Economic Preparedness

Windfall Bio · Remote · Remote

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Windfall is running AI economic preparedness programs with national governments across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Each program examines how advanced AI could affect a country’s development model (e.g., job automation exposure, labor-intensive manufacturing, traded services, remittances or commodity exports, fiscal situation), and helps its government decide what to monitor and how to respond. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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Start date: January 2027

Travel: ~10–20%, including international travel

Windfall Trust is a policy research organization preparing governments and institutions for AI-driven economic disruption. We bring together researchers, economists, and decision-makers to map out impacts and surface workable options.

Windfall's mission is to ensure that the economic benefits of advanced AI are broadly shared, rather than captured by a few. We advise countries on their economic preparedness for transformative AI (TAI), drawing on our wider research, scenario workshops with economists, policymakers and civil society leaders, and the Policy Atlas , an evolving repository of policy options available to governments. We also have an internal database of AI economic indicators called the Windfall Observatory .

Windfall is running AI economic preparedness programs with national governments across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Each program examines how advanced AI could affect a country’s development model (e.g., job automation exposure, labor-intensive manufacturing, traded services, remittances or commodity exports, fiscal...

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