The Dynamics of Privilege

John Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT System Dynamics Group, and co-director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

From Limits to Growth to Earth for All – One-planet living in a 100-year perspective

Jørgen Randers is professor emeritus of climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School. He is co-author of The Limits to Growth. He was president of BI Norwegian Business School 1981-89, and Deputy Director general of WWF International 1994-99. He has been the chair of three Norwegian banks and non-executive member of numerous corporate boards.

Can interactive simulation impact what policymakers say and do on climate?

Juliette Rooney-Varga is an expert in climate change and sustainability. She develops and uses interactive simulations in her work as an educator at UMass Lowell, where she is a professor of environmental science, directs the Climate Change Initiative, and co-directs the Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy.

Champion, student, practitioner, researcher, teacher: The life work of Jim Thompson in System Dynamics

This plenary presents some of Jim Thompson’s experiences in, and contributions to, the System Dynamics field from the 1980s until his death in 2021. Jim came to System Dynamics as an accountant, and much of his early work was focused on business, but learning was his lifelong passion. For his later work in health care, he went to great lengths to help both clients and collaborators build understanding on their own. He touched many lives and will be sorely missed.

Learning Economics with Dynamic Modeling in Ukraine, in Collaboration with Norway

David Wheat is emeritus professor at the University of Bergen and professor at NaUKMA, he collaborates with government ministries and the central bank. Iryna Lukianenko, Olena Primerova and Alina Novik teach at NaUKMA. Marianna Oliskevych is professor at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (LNU).

Overcoming capability traps in state development

Paulo Gonçalves is a Professor of Management and Director of the Humanitarian Operations Group at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, and a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS). His COVID19 modeling work supported public health decisions in both Switzerland and England in 2020 and 2021.

Assessing the impact of Rapid City Collective Impact five years later

Don Greer is a principal of Greer Black Company, a research and consulting company. With 35 years’ experience, he has worked with companies in semiconductor, logistics, telecommunications, software, pharmaceutical, energy, and commodity manufacturing industries and large government and ngos, to help leadership teams create and implement effective strategies in complex environments.

Tipping the scales: using microworlds to uncover systemic issues driving organisation’s gender pay gap

Hugo Jose Herrera de Leon is postdoctoral fellow at University of Bergen. He has worked as system dynamics modeler in a variety of projects including the NHS, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Horizon 2020 EU funding projects.

Using Community Based System Dynamics to Address Structural Racism within a Public Health Research Center

Sarah R. Pritchard is on the Leadership Team for the Prevention Research Center’s Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Washington University in St. Louis. She is Adjunct Faculty at Washington University’s Brown School of Social Work and Public Health and Research Manager at Washington University’s Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control.

Residency Program Cultures: Dynamic Interactions Shape Learning Outcomes

Brad Morrison is professor at the Brandeis International Business School. He has been a partner at a leading global management consulting firm and has more than 15 years of consulting experience in the retail and consumer products and healthcare industries.

The value of qualitative system dynamics for co-learning about energy transitions and gender mainstreaming

Josephine Kaviti Musango is a Professor at the Graduate Business School, University of Cape Town. She is one of the Founding Members of the South Africa System Dynamics Chapter. 

Co-creating Energy Solutions

Merla Kubli is Assistant Professor for Managing Climate Solutions at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and program manager of the novel master certificate Managing Climate Solutions (MaCS-HSG).

Renewable Energy Sources: Diversity of Impacts, Perspectives and Challenges

Santiago Arango-Aramburo is Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Fulbright Visiting Professor at MIT.