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 Board
  • James Rush- 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, Knowledge Integration
  • Dawn Parker - Associate Professor, School of Planning
  • Bruce Frayne - 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 - 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 and/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:

  • Sean Geobey - WICI Director & Associate Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development 
  • Chrystopher Nehaniv - WICI Associate Director & Professor, Systems Design Engineering
  • Kirsten Wright - WICI Managing Director and Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Trevor Charles - Professor, Biology
  • Dawn Parker - Professor, School of Planning
  • Francis Poulin - Professor, Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
  • Vanessa Schweizer - Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Knowledge Integration

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