The Jeremy Coller Foundation

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience was made possible through a multi-year commitment of £4 million from the Jeremy Coller Foundation.

The Jeremy Coller Foundation seeks to create a positive impact on globally critical issues through strategic action, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing. It engages with key stakeholders across the spectrum, from investors and businesses to policy-makers and consumers with a view to driving achievable and lasting change.

A key priority of the Foundation is advancing awareness of animal welfare and sentience, recognising the profound ethical and environmental implications of how societies interact with animals. By funding research, education, and advocacy, the Foundation seeks to inspire positive action and long-term impact.

The Jeremy Coller Foundation addresses the consequences of intensive animal agriculture for human health, the environment, animal welfare and global sustainability with the aim of supporting the transition to a more sustainable food system. The Foundation’s flagship initiatives include FAIRR Initiative | A Global Network of Investors Addressing Materiality Risks in Protein Supply Chains (Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return), the fastest growing investor network representing $90+ trillion assets, raising awareness of the material risks and opportunities around intensive animal agriculture;  the Coller Animal Law Forum | CALF, which aims to accelerate law and policy globally in this area; The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); and the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Interspecies Two-Way Communication offering a $10million prize to research groups for major breakthroughs in interspecies communication. The Jeremy Coller Foundation also supports a number of initiatives in business and venture education and pensions innovation worldwide.

We are a speciesist species - only when we have a better understanding of how other animals feel and communicate will we be able to acknowledge our own shortcomings in how we treat them. Just as the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphics, I am convinced the power of AI can help us unlock our understanding of how other animals experience their interactions with humans. We are delighted to partner with the LSE to support Jonathan’s ground-breaking research exploring the intersection between animal sentience, ethics and AI."