| Professor Stafford Beer, the founder of mangagement cybernetics, is an international consultant in the management sciences. |
| He was a company commander in the Gurkhas at the end of World War II. Since then, he has held managerial positions at every levelincluding those of Production Controller, Director of Management Science, Director of Development, Managing Director, Company President, and Chairman of the Board, in various companies. He is currently Chairman of Syncho Ltd (UK) and Team Syntegrity Inc. (Canada). He has worked at the governmental level in twenty-two countries, and for many international agencies. |
| He is Visiting Professor at both Manchester (since 1969) and Durham Business Schools. Earlier, he was the first Professor of General Systems at the Open University, and for many years Adjunct Professor at the Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Research Professor at University College Swansea, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. Liverpool John Moores University has nominated him Honorary Professor of Organizational Transformation. |
| Currently President of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics, Professor Beer holds its Norbert Wiener Gold Medal, and is a Governor of the International Council for Computer Communication. He is a Past President of the Operational Research Society, and holds the Lanchester Prize of the American Operations Research Society. He is also a Past President of the Interantional Society for Social Systems Sciences, and has the McCulloch Award of the American Society for Cybernetics, of which he is now a Trustee. Other awards include the Silver Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences, an Honorary Doctorate from Concordia University in Montreal, and the Freedom of the City of London. |
| Author of over two hundred publications, including eleven books variously translated into thirteen languages, Stafford Beer is a published poet, and has held several exhibitions of paintings. He teachaes meditative yoga, learned in India, to individual pupils. |
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