Is the linked website right about banking being the optimal career path for professional philanthropy or is there a more efficient method of moving resources to charities? I'm especially curious since I'll choose my degree soon.
You may wish to request a Skyped career counseling session from Carl Shulman, one of the experts behind High Impact Careers.
80,000 hours (eightythousand.org) is a new website associated with High Impact Careers, a Giving What We Can-associated effort to inform the public about "professional philanthropy" and the fact that you can do more good as a banker or entrepreneur than as an aid worker. It recently got some BBC press, and there's a neat new video.
Related to efficient charity and optimal philanthropy. Also see scope insensitivity.