Nathan Young

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• @NathanpmYoung 
• Building forecasting question generation non-profit, funded by FTX future fund
• Head of Forecasting, Zeitgeist, a crypto prediction market (a betting site with extra features)

Suggest changes to this website ✏️

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eoN3I4c24g4gZztiBdOYeFDPT-4boqDJ0M6SsCQCKNs/edit#

I’m working on:

• Forecasting - The  
• Community infrastructure and governance -
• A way to have open, high context discussions -  
• Stories -

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CV

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Director - Forecasting Question Generation Platform

• Jan 2022 - Present
• Forecasting platforms have bottleneck around creating high quality questions
• Using my experience in collaborative text generation to build community question generation non-profit to create high value questions
• Funded $182k by FTX Future Fund
  

Head of Forecasting - Zeitgeist                                                 

• June 2022 - Present
• Ensuring launch markets are high quality
• Supporting “Fire the CEO” markets to integrate futarchy, a new governance mechanism built around prediction markets
• Managing question generation projects
  

Funding Delivery Manager - Freeports, UK Civil Service

• Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
• UK infrastructure policy
• Reviewing guidance for full business case submission
• Forecasting on Government-wide platform, from Covid to geopolitics
  

Company Director and Consultant

• 2016 – Present
• Website development, community management, open-data
• Self-motivated and self-managing
• Learned customer management, business strategy and coding.
• Major client, Bluesky Certification, now a significant player in the UK door and window certification market.

Project, Community Management — Turing-RSS Joint Lab

• June 2021 – Aug 2021
• Supporting community of 20 data scientists, with external talks
• Publicise work of the lab in government and epidemiological community
• Maintain knowledge between the laboratory and the Joint Biosecurity Centre within government

Project, Founder and Director — The Coronavirus Tech Handbook

• March 2020 – Aug 2020
• The largest online library of resources around Coronavirus.
• 600k hits, 4000 projects, 130+ sections.
• “Inspiring...and well-organised” - Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science.
• Media:

• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/worldwide-hackathon-hospitals-turn-crowdsourcing-3d-printing-amid-equipment-shortages-n1165026
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2020/04/15/heres-how-all-of-us-can-use-technology-to-help-tackle-coronavirus/
• https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5dm4mb/people-are-trying-to-make-diy-ventilators-to-meet-coronavirus-demand

Project, Project Management — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

• Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
• Built a list of individuals and communities ranked according to the ease with which we could contact them. Our team has since increased this to over 14 million people and organisations
• RSPB has taken our team’s recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy
• Project managed a team of 4

Residential Fellow — Newspeak House

• July 2019 – July 2020
• Researching systems change in civil society
• Helped create electiontechhandbook.uk, containing 150 tools and a community of >200 political technologists. This new community recently held their post-election debrief to measure impact

Always happy to chat, get in touch at mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung

You can book a video call with me here

Media

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086xg5j
• https://sifted.eu/articles/wikipedia-coronavirus/
• https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/crowdsourcing-ideas-combat-covid-19/
• https://www.meritalk.com/articles/wiki-style-handbook-provides-governments-with-covid-19-tech-resources/

Mistakes

• Took a long time to realise the Bible was incoherent

Impact