David Manheim a post-doctoral researcher focusing on long-term risks and future prospects for humanity. His recent work for has focused on understanding and mitigating global catastrophic risks, and most recently responding to and learning from COVID-19. Prior to this, he completed a PhD in public policy and decision theory at the RAND Corporation while doing work that ranged from informing policy decisionmaking for infectious diseases, to flood insurance and resiliency building in the wake of catastrophes, to counter-terrorism finance and virtual currencies.