Structure

With a director and a small staff, the institute is managed by a steering committee of core members representing different faculties, governed by a Board of stakeholders, 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

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:

  • Sean Geobey - (On Sabbatical) WICI Director & Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development 
  • Chrystopher Nehaniv - WICI Acting Director & Professor, Systems Design Engineering
  • Trevor Charles - Professor, Biology
  • Dawn Parker - Professor, School of Planning
  • Vanessa Schweizer - Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Knowledge Integration
  • Heather Love - Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature 
  • Kirsten Wright - WICI Managing Director and Postdoctoral Fellow

WICI Board
  • James Rush- VP, Academic and Provost, University of Waterloo
  • Charmaine Dean - VP, University Research, University of Waterloo
  • Faculty Deans or their representatives
  • Sean Geobey - WICI Director; WISIR Director; Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
  • Chrystopher Nehaniv - WICI Associate Director; Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering
  • Three Steering Committee members, other Core members, or additional WICI members drawn from and representing each of the University of Waterloo faculties
  • Three external members who are leaders in the field of complexity science and members of the International Scientific Advisory Council (ideally selected from the Southern Ontario Region): 
    • Monica Cojocaru - Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph
    • 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

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