The LSE Complexity Group   The Group has been working for over 16 years, with organisations in the private and public sectors including AstraZeneca, BT, BAe Systems, Cabinet Office, Citibank (New York & London), Defra (Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), DWP (Dept for Work and Pensions), Dutch Ministry of the Interior, ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission, European Commission, GlaxoSmithKline, Health & Safety Executive, the Humberside TEC, Legal & General, Ministry of Defence, Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (Basque Country), the National Health Service, Norwich Union Life, Rolls-Royce (Aerospace & Marine), Royal British Legion, Shell (International, Finance & Shell Internet Works), Suffolk County Council, the World Bank (Washington DC) and several companies in the aerospace industry, to address practical complex problems. In the process it has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. The work of the LSE Complexity Group is at www.lse.ac.uk/complexity     Team Members       Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly - Director of the Complexity Group Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems Email: e.mitleton-kelly@lse.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 20 7955 6074   Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly is founder and Director of the Complexity Research Programme at the London School of Economics; visiting Professor at the Open University; Fellow of the Royal Institution; member of the Scientific Advisory Board to the ‘Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, Delft University of Technology; on the Editorial Board of the Journal of ‘Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Director of the UK Complexity Society; and Executive Co-ordinator of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational Learning) 1977-2008. Policy Advisor to European and USA organisations, the European Commission, several UK Government Departments; Scientific Advisor to the Governments of Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, Singapore and UK in developing a framework of governance for government based on complexity theory. Please see ‘A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century’, Jocelyne Bourgon, P.C., O.C., McGill Queen’s University Press http://mqup.mcgill.ca/ EMK’s research has concentrated on the implications of the theories of complexity for organizations and specifically on strategy and policy development and on the creation of enabling environments to address apparently intractable problems in business and the public sector. She has led, and participated in projects addressing practical problems using complexity theory, funded by the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, the European Commission, business and government, including: alignment between IT and the rest of the business; the reduction of problems associated with IT legacy systems; lack of organisational integration post merger; project governance for a national project delivered locally by multiple partners for the Royal British Legion; a framework of governance for government with 6 Government Administrations; leadership in the National Health Service (UK), Defra, and many other organisations in the private and public sectors; sustainable development in communities, organizational learning, the emergence of new organizational forms, the ‘design’ of organizations, co-evolutionary sustainability, innovation in the private and public sector, diversity, art & complexity, disaster risk reduction in West African States, energy & climate change; relationship between policy and outcomes (Health & Safety Executive); uncertainty & risk in decision making for Local Government; and contingency planning related to evacuation following a major disaster. She has developed a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. The theory is being used for teaching at universities around the world, including three EPSRC-funded short courses at LSE, to train researchers and two courses at Beijing (Jan. 2010 & Apr. 2011) to train senior government officials. Publications, incl. a book on corporate governance and complexity (2010); the work of the LSE Complexity Group is on www.lse.ac.uk/complexity EMK has had two careers. One in the British Civil Service, Department of Trade & Industry (1967-1983) and another as an academic at the London School of Economics (since 1988).           Naya Hadzipani - Administrator Email: complexitygroup@lse.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 207 955 6308             Dr Vikas Chandra - Research Officer Personal website Email: v.chandra@lse.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 207 852 3621   I am currently a Research Officer on the SOCIONICAL project and also teach Evolution and Social Behaviour (SO215) and Quantitative Criminology (SO4M3) in the Sociology department at LSE. I have also recently completed my PhD at the Open University where I investigated Patent and Publication Networks in Stem Cell Research. Prior to commencing my PhD, I did an M.Sc. In Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society at the LSE in 2005 and an LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law at King's College, London in 2003. I have practiced as a corporate and economic offences lawyer in Delhi (India) from 1992 to 2002.         Maggie Ellis - Senior Research Fellow   Further information           Dr Tamara Shengelia - Researcher Email: t.shengelia@lse.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0) 207 852 3621   Tamara recently completed her PhD at the Open University, studying Social Representations of Biotechnology. She holds an MSc in Psychology of Personality from Tbilisi State University and a BSc in Psychology with a Qualification of Teacher of Psychology. Tamara has taught a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in psychology and research methods, and supervised undergraduate psychology research projects.                 Research Associates       Dr Ugur Bilge - Senior Research Associate   Ugur Bilge is an Agent Based Simulations (ABS) expert, who develops tools for understanding, communicating and applying the Complex Systems approach to real world problems. In 1993, Ugur received his PhD in Computer Science from University College London, where he worked as a research assistant in European funded research projects on Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms. Later he worked as a consultant at the Logistics Innovation Centre, J. Sainsbury plc where he designed and developed state-of-the-art software tools for Forecasting, Optimisation, Planning and Scheduling applications for Finance, Retail and Logistics, applying techniques such as Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, and the Complex Adaptive Systems approach. In 1998 Ugur co-founded SimWorld Ltd in the UK, a consultancy and innovative solutions company, and developed SimStore, a realistic simulation of a supermarket layout with moving customers. Since then he has been developing ABS for a number of clients, including a geographic model of Container Transport in the UK, and a coarse grain simulation of Oil World. Ugur was the modelling expert for the ICoSS Project at London School of Economics (LSE). He developed the Organisational Forms Simulator, an agent based network simulation and visualisation tool for exploring informal social networks, and investigating patterns of connectivity within business organisations. Since 2003, Ugur has held the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at Akdeniz University, in Antalya, Turkey. He taught Agent Based Simulations and Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, and applied complexity thinking to medical and healthcare problems, such as the development of a simulator for management of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). In 2006 and 2007 he was a tutor for the LSE Taught Course for Researchers on Complexity Science and Complex Social Systems.           Kate Hopkinson - Senior Research Associate       Kate Hopkinson is Director of Inner Skills, a consultancy she set up in 1995. She uses an innovative methodology she has developed, called Landscape of the Mind. As well as 30 years experience in management and organisation development, Kate has been CEO of a not-for-profit organisation, and served for 6 years on the board of Saferworld, an NGO concerned with international security issues. She is a designated expert in cognitive sciences for the European Commission, and has been a formal reviewer for EU projects. As well as writing articles and papers, she contributed to the best selling “The Personal Management Handbook”. She has been attached to the Complexity research group at LSE since 2000, and worked on the ICoSS project, with Rolls-Royce Marine, Norwich Union, Shell, BT and The Modernisation Agency of the NHS.         Noah Raford - Senior Research Associate   Noah Raford is an urban planner and a PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the former North American Director for Space Syntax Limited, a Fellow at the LSE Complexity Programme, a fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and a research associate at the Oxford University Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Noah's research at the LSE focuses on the theoretical foundations of systemic change, with a particular emphasis on the impact of climate change on critical infrastructure systems. He uses scenario planning, systems mapping and web participation tools to help managers better understand the risks they face in a changing world, as well as what web-enabled complexity approaches can offer for new forms of management and strategy in turbulent times. Noah consults and lectures widely and can be reached at nraford (at) mit (dot) edu           Ben Ramalingam - Senior Research Associate   Ben Ramalingam's blog   Ben Ramalingam is the Head of Research and Development at the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP), a unique sector-wide network which works to improve international humanitarian performance through learning and accountability. Ben has worked at the leading UK think-tank, the Overseas Development Institute, where he led research and advisory work on organisational learning, strategic thinking, and knowledge management in the aid sector. Prior to working for ODI, Ben worked in the private sector, focusing on strategy consulting, investment banking and IT. Highlights from his previous work includes a review of organisational change in the humanitarian sector, work on the global food price crisis, on urban crises and complex emergencies. Ongoing work includes leading an initiative on humanitarian innovations and a cross-Atlantic research programme on leadership in aid organisations. Ben has also published on complexity and aid issues.         Dr Paul Stevens - Senior Research Associate   Paul Stevens started working life as a research scientist gaining a PhD from Brunel University, an MSc in Biochemistry from London University and a BSc in Pharmacology from Bradford University. He spent nearly fifteen years unsuccessfully searching for new medicines. He next spent about twenty years leading various aspects of IT for a major pharmaceutical company eventually reaching the dizzying heights of Vice-president of IT for the UK subsidiary. In 2008, Paul retired from gainful employment and is now a fulltime, unpaid numismatist researching the coins and coinage of India with particular focus on the British East India Company. His interest in complexity science began in the 1990s during a series of seminars run at the London School of Economics. Since then he has been interested in the application of these ideas to various aspects of his work, initially in managing people, but most recently to numismatics.

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