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Formation	1988
Membership	Stephon H. Alexander, Paul Allen, Anna Dreber Almenberg, Stewart Alsop (InfoWorld), Adam Alter, Ivan Amato, Dorsa Amir, David J. Anderson, Alun Anderson, Christopher J. Anderson, Ross Anderson, Philip W. Anderson, Chris Anderson, Natalie Angier, Carlo Antonelli, Coren Apicella, Samuel Arbesman, Dan Ariely, Noga Arikha, W. Brian Arthur, Charles Arthur, Peter Atkins, Scott Atran, Robert Aunger, Robert Axelrod, Joscha Bach, Christopher Badcock, John Baez, Per Bak, John Baldessari, Mahzarin Banaji, Albert-lászló Barabási, Julian Barbour, John A. Bargh, John Perry Barlow, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel Barondes, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Andrew Barron, John D. Barrow, Thomas A. Bass, Mary Catherine Bateson, Patrick Bateson, Nicolas Baumard, Roy Baumeister, Yves Béhar, Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Gregory Benford, Yochai Benkler, Benjamin K. Bergen, Nicolas Berggruen, Jesse Bering, Tim Berners-Lee, Jeremy Bernstein, David Berreby, Laura Betzig, Jeff Bezos, Jamshed Bharucha, Nick Bilton, Roger Bingham, Susan Blackmore, Andrew Blake, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Colin Blakemore, Sandra Blakeslee, Alan S. Blinder, Ned Block, Paul Bloom, Adam Bly, Giulio Boccaletti, David Bodanis, Stefano Boeri, Ian Bogost, Zachary Bogue, Kirsten Bomblies, Joshua Bongard, Lera Boroditsky, Nick Bostrom, Raphael Bousso, Robert Boyd, Ed Boyden, Pascal Boyer, Stewart Brand, David Braunschvig, Hubertus Breuer, Larry Brilliant, Sergey Brin, David Brin, Terry Bristol, Max Brockman, Philip Brockman, Rodney A. Brooks, David Brooks, Mike Brown, James H. Brown, Andrew Brown, Stanley Buchthal, Stephen Budiansky, David Bunnell, Hubert Burda, David M. Buss, Eric Buterbaugh, James Lee Byars, Jason Calacanis, William H. Calvin, Philip Campbell, Jimena Canales, Benedict Carey, Doug Carlston, Geoffrey Carr, Nicholas G. Carr, Sean Carroll, Marlies A. 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Financed by Jeffrey Epstein. Held annual Billionaire's Dinner

The Edge Foundation was financed by Jeffrey Epstein. It hosted an annual Billionaires' dinner, which stopped once Epstein stopped funding the organization.

People

"People Contributing to Edge.org", listed as of April 2025. The news of Brockman's close association with Epstein did not lead to an exodus of Edge contributors. Carl Zimmer, a leading science writer and New York Times columnist, struck a rare note of protest, when he told Edge to remove his profile and contributions from the site. Naomi Wolf similarly cut her ties with Brockman. "I made the decision to leave Brockman Inc on July 31, 2019, due to my learning about Jeffrey Epstein's funding of Edge.org, and due to the appearance of Sarah Kellen, Epstein's associate, on the Edge.org website," she stated.

Epstein funding

In the period 2001 until 2017, foundations associated with Epstein provided $638,000 out of a total of almost $857,000 received by Edge over this period. Income from book contracts, which appears from 2005 onward, accounts for a total of about $1.48 million in earnings. After Epstein made his final recorded donation to Edge in 2015, the group stopped hosting its annual Billionaires' dinner. Epstein's last recorded contribution to the Edge Foundation was a donation of $30,000 in 2015, after which the group's total fundraising stalled. In 2016 and 2017, the foundation received just $5,477 from a single donor.

Johnny Vedmore wrote that:

Edge was an organisation where Jeffrey Epstein directly funded the training of the emerging Technocratic elite. Almost every top player in the tech industry was an Edge member while Epstein funded it, and it was these grand manipulators of society who were mapping out every part of the technocratic panopticon we see emerging around us today. The event happened under the watchful eye of an intelligence-linked human trafficker and financier for various multinational intelligence agencies.

Activities

The foundation hosts an Annual Billionaire's Dinner, attended by an interesting variety of characters, many of whom feature in Epstein's black book or the Lolita Express flight logs, and/or the lists of WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow and WEF/Young Global Leaders.

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