Structure | Waterloo Institute for Complexity & Innovation

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

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 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:

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 Grossmann - 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