Aleco Christakis

Aleco Christakis Years of service 1/10/2008-13/10/2015 Service type Past Board member Member of Advisory Board for Act Beyond Borders 2010-2013 PastMember of N.E.T.S. Board of Trustees 2014-2015 Past Member of N.E.T.S. Academic Staff Field(s) of Study BA in theoretical physics,Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics University(ies) Princeton University, Yale University Specialization(s) Social scientist, Systems scientist, Cyberneticist Notable Achievements Co-founder of the science of dialogic design

For a detailed curriculum vitae of Dr. Christakis click: Full CV.

Short Bio

Aleco Christakis, has >40 years experience in developing and testing methods for engaging stakeholders in productive dialogue. He is the author of over 100 papers on stakeholder participation, books such as How People Harness their Collective Wisdom (with Kenneth Bausch) and The Talking Point: Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning (with Tom Flanagan) . He is past President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2002). He is member of the Board of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), Advisor to the AIO and a advisor to the Ambassador’s leadership program for engaging tribal leaders from the USA and internationally. He travels across the globe to facilitate structured dialogues and promote the science of dialogic design.

Collaboration with Future Worlds Center

Aleco first collaborated with Future Worlds Center in 2006 in the context of the Civil Society Dialogue Project in Cyprus, a project coordinated by the Cyprus EU Association and the Cyprus Intercultural Training Initiative and having Aleco as partner representing the Institute for 21st Century Agoras

served as Member of the Board between 2008 and October 2015. 

Selected Publications

Christakis has published over 100 papers on the management of complexity in refereed journals. He is also the co-author of three books on "Technology Assessment". Books:

• Christakis, A. N. (2009). The Talking Point:Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning. With T.R. Flanangan. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
• Christakis, A. N. (2006). Co-laboratories of democracy: how people harness their collective wisdom to create the future. With Kenneth C. Bausch. Boston, MA: Information Age Publishing.
• Christakis, A. N. (2005). Pragmatic Design Dialogue.
• Christakis, A. N. (1970). "The Predicament of Mankind Quest for Structured Responses for Growing World-wide Complexities and Uncertainties". With co-authors like Hasan Özbekhan, Erich Jantsch, Peccei, ...and others (PDF)
• Christakis, A. N. (1987). John N. Warfield, and Christakis, A.N. "Dimensionality," Systems Research 4, pp. 127–137
• Christakis, A. N. (2004). "Retrospective Inquiry of the predicament of menkind prospectus of the Club of Rome"
• Christakis, A. N. (2009). Interview: Learnings and Vistas based on revisiting 40 years of the "Global Problematique" [2] Interview in Europe'sWorld by Heiner Benking [3], November
• Christakis, A. N. (2011). Interview: The Predicament of the Individual, Communities, and Humankind in the 21st Century[4] by Heiner Benking [5], September

Links to videos

• Aleco Christakis at TEDx Heraklion

External Links

• Aleco Christakis at Wikipedia
• Aleco Christakis at the Global Agoras
• Aleco Christakis at Linkedin