Josh Muthu

Investor

2025 - Current

Investing in exceptional technologists to build great companies *** Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. [Why] We exist to amplify ambition, alter career trajectories, and shape the future. [How] We find exceptional talent, to form exceptional teams, to build exceptional companies. [What] We’ve backed thousands of founders at the earliest stage, creating >$11B in value. Examples include GenZ fintech Cleo AI, encrypted blockchain protocol Aztec, and diamond marketplace Nivoda. EF has pioneered global Talent Investing since 2014 and is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), and Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind). For more information visit www.joinef.com

Economics of Transformative Al Fast-Track

2025 - 2025

Research Lead — Space Sector

2024 - 2024

Founding member of a think tank focused on global progress and innovation Analysed space industry innovation, quantifying technological spillover effects and creating data visualisations of launch cost trends Researched space industry government policy, evaluating market structures, procurement, and regulation Improved research pipelines and refined project structures through cross-functional collaborations

Emergent Ventures Grantee — economic research + general career support

2024 - 2024

Received a $10,000 grant (I only applied for $2,500 - I wasn't "being ambitious enough") Awarded grant for two research proposals: applying urban economic models to the UK, and incorporating active inference into economic models

Undergraduate Researcher

2024 - 2024

Independent research project “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Buying Non-Use Rights for Coal Mines” Performed in-depth, quantitative cost-benefit analysis, quantifying externalities and utilising academic and governmental sources Applied a microeconomic model from published literature to the context of coal mine non-use rights Paper accepted to the 2025 British and International Conferences of Undergraduate Research Project conducted through the competitive Undergraduate Research Support Scheme, supervised by Professor Anant Sudarshan and Professor Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto

Economist

2023 - 2024

Led multibillion-pound private pension fiscal modelling for 2024 Spring Budget Created reproducible software pipelines in R for National Statistics on >£6bn pension tax charges Conducted data analysis in R on >20mn pension contributors to identify individuals’ tax reduction strategies Refined multibillion-pound pension tax reform model by incorporating microeconomic tax response research Automated QA and data imputation pipelines using SAS and Excel, saving ~2 weeks of work per year Updated forecasts for HM Treasury with <1 day deadlines, presenting these to key stakeholders

Research Assistant

2023 - 2024

Research assistant for Dr Witold Więcek, Consulting Director at Michael Kremer’s Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development Co-drafted Bayesian meta-analyses on Vitamin A supplementation and an extreme poverty alleviation (“graduation”) programme, and conducted literature reviews Produced reports on vaccine dose optimisation, commissioned by a multibillion-dollar philanthropic NGO Redesigned researcher’s website in GitHub Pages using Jekyll (Ruby)

AI Governance Course

2024 - 2024

Intern

2023 - 2023

Economic Consultant Intern in the Competition Practice Performed sensitivity analyses and data visualisations in Stata for multibillion-euro cartel overcharge case Collaborated directly with a Director to compile details of UK class/collective action cases to inform future proposals Created quantum tracker/calculator for international settlement claims in Stata and Excel Updated Excel tracker databases with client data

Returner Participant/Alumnus

2021 - 2023

Co-developed & oversaw ESPR grants program Organised large-scale alumni reunion Attended AI Generators workshop Prepared & delivered class: "Economic production functions and AI" Delivered talk: "Hill's causation criteria" Developed rational decision-making, critical thinking, and applied mathematical techniques

Participant

2021 - 2021

Developed skills in statistics, information theory, game theory, decision theory, and logic. Learned applied rationality techniques for decision making and critical thinking. Collaborated with other participants to plan a meta-analysis on the macroeconomic effect of quantitative easing.