THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Ervin Laszlo, Docteur d’Etat (Sorbonne) is Director of the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (Italy), Founder and President of The Club of Budapest, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Philosophy of Science, Senator of the International Medici Academy, and Editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research. 

He is the recipient of the Goi Peace Prize (2001), the International Mandir of Peace Prize (2005), the Conacreis Holistic Culture Prize (2009), the Ethics Prize of Milan (2014), and the Luxembourg World Peace Prize (2017). Laszlo is Honorary citizen of the City of Buenos Aires and Honorary Professor of the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology and holds Honorary Ph.D’s from the United States, Canada, Finland, and Hungary.

He is the author or co-author of hundred and one books translated into twenty-four languages. Laszlo was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and 2005.

Ervin Laszlo’s author  website: https://ervinlaszlobooks.com

Gandolfo Dominici is an academic and researcher specializing in systems thinking, business management, social Cybernetics and digital transformation. He holds a PhD in Business Management at the University “Sapienza” of Rome (2004), during which he was a visiting researcher at the University of Nagasaki in Japan. He is currently a professor of Business Systems and Marketing at the University of Palermo’s Department of Economics, Business, and Statistical Sciences (DSEAS), Italy. He is also cofounder, vice-president, and the Scientific Director of the Business Systems Laboratory. In his role as Scientific Director of the Business Systems Laboratory, Professor Dominici leads initiatives that bridge the gap between theoretical research and practical applications. The Business  Systems Laboratory focuses on interdisciplinary studies, aiming to develop holistic approaches to complex business challenges by integrating insights from various fields.

He is an active member of the global academic community and serves on editorial boards and scientific committees.
From 2016 to 2024, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes, successfully elevating it into a premier outlet for research in social cybernetics and increasing its impact factor from 0.6 to 2.5. He actually serves as the EiC of Int. J. of Electronic Marketing and Retailing and Int. J. of Markets and Business Systems, and he is Co-Editor of the Int. J. of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics.

His research focuses on consumer behaviour, social cybernetics, behavioural sciences, and organizational systems, with numerous publications in high-impact international journals.

His full and updated CV is available at: https://gandolfodominici.it/index.htm

Pier Mario Biava graduated in Medicine at the University of Pavia in 1969, specialized in Occupational Medicine at the University of Padova in 1972 and in Hygiene at the University of Trieste in 1977. He worked at the Institute of Occupational Medicine of University of Trieste, where he taught “Industrial Toxicology”, “Industrial Technology” and “Epidemiology of Occupational Diseases”. He has been studying environmental carcinogens since 1974. He has performed many epidemiological researches particularly about the relationship between asbestos ad cancer. He has been studying the relationships between stem cell differentiation and cancer since 1982 and he has isolated the stem cell differentiation stage factors able to delay tumor growth, to prevent aging and neurodegeneration and very effective also in the treatment of psoriasis. Head of Occupational Medicine at the Hospital of Sesto S.G. (Milano) and Professor at the Post-Graduate School of Occupational Medicine of University of Trieste from 1984 until 2003, he works now at the Scientific Institute of Research and HealthCare (IRCSC) Multimedica of Milano.

He is author of more than hundred scientific publications and of some books: “L’Aggressione Nascosta. Limiti Sanitari di Esposizione ai Rischi” published by Feltrinelli 1982,  “Complexity and Biology” published by B. Mondadori 2002, “Il Cancro e la Ricerca del Senso Perduto” edited by Springer 2008, (this last book was published also in USA by North Atlantic Books 2009 (“Cancer and the Search for Lost Meaning“), and by Verlag Via Nova in Germany 2011) and “Il Senso Ritrovato” (with Ervin Laszlo) published by Springer in 2012. With Ervin Laszlo and Diego Frigoli ” he published the also the book: Dal Segno al Simbolo. Il Manifesto del Nuovo Paradigma in Medicina, edited by Persiani in 2014 and with Laszlo the book “Information Medicine” edited by Healing Arts Press Rochester 2018, and finally the book “Guarire” edited by Enea, Italy in 2019.

Pavel Luksha is a global thinker, change catalyst, and facilitator working with systemic social innovations in education, business, social entrepreneurship, culture and urban development. Pavel is the founder of Global Education Futures initiative. He is Professor at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and at the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA),  Partner of Education Vertical of Global Venture Alliance and a co-founder of two international social movements, Weaving Lab and Living Cities. 

Pavel sits on the Supervisory board of the 20.35 University and EcoClass (экокласс.рф), and on the Advisory board of Whittle Schools & Studios and Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research as well as in the Expert Council of the Russian Agency for Strategic Initiatives. 

He is the co-author of Rapid Foresight methodology used by thousands of futurists and practitioners across the world. Between 2012 and 2015 Pavel has been the program director of a globally unique Foresight Fleet and also co-founded “Boiling Point” future co-creation spaces currently in 41 cities across Russia. He is the founding member of the UN Working Group on the Future of Capital so as the co-founder of Future Skills research alliance of WorldSkills International. In 2015, he was the Chair of BRICS Skills Development Working Group. From 2009 to 2013, he worked with technology innovation management education, authored Skolkovo-Rosatom program that received EFMD Excellence in Practice Award, and co-founded Russian Innovations and R&D Directors Club (iR&Dclub). He also initiated and catalyzed NeuroNet initiative which since 2014 has become Russian national consortium in brain research and neural technologies. 

He is the lead author of numerous Global Education Futures reports, including “Learning Ecosystems: An Emerging Praxis” (2020), “Educational Ecosystems for Societal Transformation” (2018), “Future Skills: How to Thrive in a New Complex World” (2017), “Global Education Futures Agenda” (2014) which are all available on Global Education Futures‘ website and “Atlas of Emerging Jobs” (3^rd edition 2020), one of the most detailed global compendiums of new and emerging jobs  –  works that have catalyzed systemic innovations in multiple educational systems around the world.