Bio

Libbie Prescott is the Cause Lead for Global Catastrophic Risk at Founders Pledge overseeing the GCR Fund. She brings scientific training and policy experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and global governance, spanning three US government agencies, Capitol Hill, and civil society. Libbie has served as a US diplomat, faculty member at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and program director at the US National Academies. She earned her doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Oxford, Balliol College and a degree with high honors in Economics and Molecular Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. Outside of work she tends to plants, attempts to interpret her cats, and scuba dives at any opportunity.

Q&A with Libbie

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

Marie Curie, who led society-altering research and applied it to better humanity, undeterred by the barriers facing women in her time.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

An interior designer - ironic, considering it took me five years to pick paint colors and I still don’t have a couch because I can’t decide what I want.

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

A limited series somewhere between The Diplomat and Slow Horses, with Claire Danes channelling her Homeland intensity to play me.