1. Alexander "Aleco" Christakis 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".
Since the 1970s Alexander Christakis has served on the faculties of Yale University, Georgetown University, University of Athens, and the University of Virginia.
Alexander Christakis spent five years at George Mason University as the Director of the Center for Interactive Management headed by John N Warfield.
In 1989 Alexander Christakis founded his own management consultancy firm CWA Ltd.
Alexander 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, Alexander Christakis served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
Alexander Christakis is a partner with Dialogic Design International, a consulting firm that deploys SDD in systemic design approaches for complex organizational and systems problems.
Alexander Christakis has received numerous awards and distinctions including the Demosophia Award, the Creative Programming Award from the National University Continuing Education Association and the most prestigious medal of the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies to name a few.
Alexander Christakis has been invited to support the peace process in Cyprus and the Middle East.
Alexander Christakis has published over 100 papers on the management of complexity in refereed journals.
Alexander Christakis is the co-author of three books on "Technology Assessment".