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Alexander (Aleco) Christakis ((ギリシア語:Αλέξανδρος Χρηστάκης); born 1937) is a Greek American social scientist, systems scientist and cyberneticist, former faculty member of several Universities, organizational consultant and member of the Club of Rome, known for his "study and design of social systems".〔(Biography ) Alexander N. Christakis, January 17, 2003.〕 == Biography == Christakis came to the United States in 1956, and received a BA in theoretical physics at Princeton University and a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics at Yale. Later on he proceeded studying urban planning, and systems science until 1970. In the 1960s he returned to Greece and joined the architectural firm of Doxiadis Associates, which was specialized in architecture and town planner. In 1968 he was co-founder of the Club of Rome, where he was a collaborator of Aurelio Peccei, Erich Jantsch and Hasan Özbekhan. Since the 1970s Christakis has served on the faculties of Yale University, Georgetown University, University of Athens, and the University of Virginia. He also spent five years at George Mason University as the Director of the Center for Interactive Management headed by John N. Warfield. In 1989 Christakis founded his own management consultancy firm CWA Ltd. dedicated to apply Interactive Management principles, and he has been CEO ever since. Christakis serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including ''Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences'', ''Systems: Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science'', and the ''Journal of Applied Systems Studies''. In 2002, Dr. Christakis served as President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He also serves as President of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras,〔(Global Agoras )〕 a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of civic, global, and institutional capacity for coordinated democratic decision-making using systems principles (Co-Laboratories of Democracy.) The Institute for 21st Century Agoras is credited for the formalization of the science of Structured dialogic design in its present form. Dr. Christakis is also a partner with Dialogic Design International () a consulting firm that deploys SDD in systemic design approaches for complex organizational and systems problems. In 2007 he served on the Board of Directors of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), of Future Worlds Center and also as an Advisor to the Ambassadors Program of AIO, which serves indigenous people around the world.〔(Americans for Indian Opportunity )〕 He has received numerous awards and distinctions including the DEMOSOPHIA Award,〔By John N. Warfield awarded in 1993 by Roxana Cardenas during an International Conference at ITESM, which is the most prominent Mexican University System〕 the Creative Programming Award from the National University Continuing Education Association〔Awarded in 1983 while Aleco Christakis was teaching at the University of Virginia〕 and the most prestigious medal of the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies to name a few. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Christakis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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