Fellows

Los Altos Institute has fully reactivated its research fellows program and is pleased to have three fellows for 2023. This page will soon be updated with their research foci and projects. Stay tuned!

Robert Donoghue (2023-present)

Robert Donoghue is a policy researcher focusing on workplace governance, occupational health and safety, and the digitalisation of work. His doctoral research empirically evaluated the libertarian and neo-republican theories of freedom by investigating how different workplace regulatory models restrict or promote worker liberty. He is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Bath and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Essex.

He is based in London, UK.

Marie Chadwick (2023-present)

Marie holds a Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Toronto. After several years of working in the non-profit sector while simultaneously pursuing graduate studies, she left both to focus on a rewarding career in the insurance industry. Marie attained her Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation in 2016 and has over a decade of underwriting experience. Nonetheless, she remains passionate about her historical research, with a keen interest in how class and gender identities interact with religion and power structures in the Western world. She enjoys board games, horror and weird fiction (especially of the Lovecraftian variety), rock music, cooking, ballroom dancing, and crochet. She and her partner live in Ontario under the benevolent yet autocratic reign of their enormous Maine Coon cat.

She is based in Oakville, Ontario.

Arthur Vanden Berg (2019-present)

Art Vanden Berg is a Vancouver-based tech entrepreneur and father of two who holds a degree in physics from Simon Fraser University. Art was a prominent cycling activist director of the BC Green Party from 1996 to 2000. Following a near-miss in the 1996 municipal election, in 1999 he became the first person in Canada to be elected to office on the Green Party ticket and served three years as a city councilor, first as a Green, then an independent, then with the Victoria Civic Electors (NDP).

He is based in Vancouver, BC.