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The LSE
Complexity Group
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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
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Team Members |
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Prof. Eve
Mitleton-Kelly - Director of the Complexity Group |
| Email:
e.mitleton-kelly@lse.ac.uk |
| Phone: +44 (0) 20
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Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly is Founder
Director of the Complexity Research Programme at the London
School of Economics; visiting Professor at the Open University;
FRI (Fellow of the Royal Institution); SAB member to the ‘Next
Generation Infrastructures Foundation’, TU Delft; on Editorial
Board of ‘Emergence: Complexity & Organisations’; on the
Scientific Committee of the 2011 Knowledge Cities World Summit
(Israel); was Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and
Government of the European Complex Systems Network of
Excellence, Exystence (2003-2006); Executive Coodinator
of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational Learning)
1977-2008; and Policy Advisor to European and USA organisations,
the European Commission, several UK Government Departments;
Scientific Advisor to the 2011 World Forum on Public Governance
(Ottawa) and to the Governments of Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Netherlands, Singapore and UK.
EMK’s research has concentrated on addressing apparently
intractable problems in business and the public sector and the
creation of enabling environments based on complexity
science. She has led, and participated in, projects funded by
the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, the European Commission, business and
government, to address problems associated with: IT-business
alignment; organisational integration post M&A; corporate
governance; leadership, sustainable development, organizational
learning, innovation, disaster risk reduction in West African
States, energy & climate change. She has developed a theory of
complex social systems and a methodology to address complex
social problems. The theory is being used for teaching at
universities around the world. Publications and the work of the
LSE Complexity Group is at www.lse.ac.uk/complexity
Her first career between 1967-83, was with the British Civil
Service in the Department of Trade and Industry, where she was
involved in the formulation of policy and the negotiation of EU
Directives. |
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Naya Hadzipani -
Administrator |
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Email: complexitygroup@lse.ac.uk |
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Phone: +44 (0) 207 955 6308 |
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Dr
Vikas Chandra - Research Officer |
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Personal website |
| Email: v.chandra@lse.ac.uk |
| Phone: +44 (0) 207
852 3621 |
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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. |
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Maggie
Ellis - Senior Research Fellow |
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Further information |
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Dr Ugur
Bilge -
Senior Research Associate |
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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. |
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Dr Tamara
Shengelia - Researcher |
| Email: t.shengelia@lse.ac.uk |
| Phone: +44 (0) 207
852 3621 |
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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. |
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Research Associates |
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Kate
Hopkinson - Senior Research Associate |
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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. |
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Noah Raford
- Senior Research Associate |
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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 |
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Ben Ramalingam
- Senior Research Associate |
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Ben Ramalingam's blog |
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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. |
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Dr Paul
Stevens - Senior Research Associate |
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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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