Keith Hipel

On August 30, 2011 By

Keith Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering and Coordinator  of the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of Waterloo. He is Senior Fellow at  the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Vice President of the  Canadian Academy of Sciences.

Keith enjoys teaching and is a recipient of the  [...]

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Thomas Homer-Dixon

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Thomas Homer-Dixon, WICI Director, is the CIGI Chair in Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, and Professor in Faculties of Environment and Arts at the University of Waterloo. He received his B.A. in political science from Carleton University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from [...]

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Dawn Parker

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Dawn Parker is Associate Professor in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment and Associate Director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on the development of fine-scale models that link the drivers of land-use change and their socioeconomic and ecological impacts, [...]

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Stephen Quilley

On October 21, 2011 By

Stephen Quilley, WICI Director of Development, is an Associate Professor in Social Innovation Generation and the Department of Environment and Resource Studies in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Steve is technically a sociologist, having worked previously at University College Dublin (1999-2005) and the ESRC Centre for [...]

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Lee Smolin

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Lee Smolin is a founding member and research physicist at the Perimeter Institute  For Theoretical Physics. Professor Smolin received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in  1979 from Harvard University, and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Institute for Theoretical Physics (now Kavli Institute for [...]

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Shreyas Sundaram

On September 13, 2011 By

Shreyas Sundaram , WICI Research Node Coordinator, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania [...]

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Paul Thagard

On August 30, 2011 By

Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy, with cross appointment to Psychology and  Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, and University  Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. He is a graduate of the Universities of  Saskatchewan, Cambridge, Toronto (Ph. D. in philosophy) and Michigan (M.S. in  computer science).

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Mark Weber

On August 30, 2011 By

Mark Weber’s research interests include cooperation, trust, the social facilitation of leadership, negotiations, the role of values in decision-making, and social and organizational identity processes. Although his research focuses on social psychology in organizations and systems, he also has a special interest in how micro-level processes drive meso- and [...]

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Frances Westley

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Frances Westley is JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation at University of  Waterloo, where she heads up Social Innovation Generation (SiG), a national initiative designed to build capacity for social innovation in Canada.

Before joining University of Waterloo in 2007 she was Director of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental [...]

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