# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toby-ord
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:32:55.737Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toby-ord"
name: "Toby Ord"
slug: "toby-ord"
description: "Toby David Godfrey Ord is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible."
tagline: "Australian philosopher"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1979-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Toby Ord"
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    title: "トビー・オード"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump