Structure

With a director and a small staff, the institute is managed by a board and a steeringÂ 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
  - WICIÂ Director and Associate Director
    - 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
Dawn Parker - WICIÂ Director; 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
Paul Thagard - Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program, University of Waterloo
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 smallÂ committee meets two to four timesÂ 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 SteeringÂ Committee consists of the following members:

Dawn Parker WICIÂ Director; Professor, School of Planning
Vanessa SchweizerÂ WICIÂ Associate Director; Assistant Professor, Knowledge Integration
Stephen Quilley WICIÂ Director of Development; Associate Professor, Social Innovation Generation and Department of Environment and Resource Studies
Chrystopher NehanivÂ - Professor, Systems Design Engineering
Sharon Kirkpatrick - Associate Professor, School of Public Health & Health Systems
Igor GrossmannÂ - Associate Professor, Psychology
Peter Deadman - Associate Professor, Geography and Environment Management

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