Academic to donate £1m of earnings
Updated on 14 November 2009
An ethics researcher has vowed to give away £1 million - more than half of his future earnings - in a bid to help fight poverty in the developing world.
Dr Toby Ord, an academic at Oxford University, will give up 10% of his annual salary, plus any yearly earnings above £20,000 for the rest of his career.
He calculated he should earn about £1.5 million and said he realised that if he was to continue living modestly he would be able to give away £1 million of this to help others.
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