Structure

With a director and a small staff, the institute is managed by a board and a steering committee, and is guided by an International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC) consisting of leading thinkers in the fields of complexity and innovation.

Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation (WICI) organizational structure

University of Waterloo Board of Directors
- Vice-president, University Research
  - WICI Director and Associate Director(s)
    - Administrative Coordinator
    - Researchers
  - International Scientific Advisory Committee
  - WICI Board
    - Steering Committee

WICI Board

James RushÂ - VP, Academic and Provost, University of Waterloo
Charmaine Dean - VP, University Research, University of Waterloo
Vanessa Schweizer - WICI Director; Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor,Â Knowledge Integration
Dawn Parker - Associate Professor, School of Planning
Jean Andrey - Dean, Faculty of Environment
Monica Cojocaru - Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
Keith Hipel - Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering
Sarah Tolmie - Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Anna Lawniczak - Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
William Sutherland - MD, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Family Medicine, McMaster University; Founder and Director, Institute for Complexity and Connection Medicine
Deans or their representatives from the primary participating faculties

WICI Steering Committee

The WICI Steering Committee consists of the director, associate director, our administrator, and a minimum of two core members. This small committee meets two to four times per year to plan strategic direction, major activities, and resource allocation. The committee also serves as a sounding board on a day-to-day basis to guide decisions regarding activities and resource allocation.

The WICI Steering Committee consists of the following members:

Vanessa Schweizer WICI Director; Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Knowledge Integration
Sharon Kirkpatrick - WICI Associate Director; Associate Professor, School of Public Health & Health Systems
Chrystopher Nehaniv - Professor, Systems Design Engineering
Dawn Parker - Professor, School of Planning
Igor GrossmannÂ - Associate Professor, Psychology
Trevor Charles - Professor, Biology

International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC)

W. Brian Arthur - External professor, Santa Fe Institute
Robert Axtell - Professor and chair, Department of Computational Social Science, George Mason University
Yaneer Bar-Yam - President, New England Complex Systems Institute
Mike Batty - Professor of planning; director, Center of Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
Eric Beinhocker - Executive director of the INET@Oxford research program, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
J. Doyne Farmer - External professor, Santa Fe Institute
Carl Folke - Science director, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Ian Goldin - Director, Oxford Martin School, Oxford University
Monica Cojocaru - Associate professor, Mathematics, University of Guelph
Eric Lambin - Professor, Department of Geography, University of Louvain; professor, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
Jukka-Pekka Onnela - Assistant professor of biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Marten Scheffer - Professor, aquatic ecology, Wageningen University
Felix Reed-Tsochas - Co-director of the CABDyN Complexity Centre University of Oxford
William Sutherland - MD, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Family Medicine, McMaster University; Founder and Director, Institute for Complexity and Connection Medicine