Founding president, New England Complex Systems Institute

Yaneer Bar-Yam is founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and co-founder of the World Health Network. A complexity physicist, he received his SB and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] in 1978 and 1984, respectively. He is the author of Dynamics of Complex Systems and Making Things Work, and has focused in recent years on developing responses to global crises.