Biographies of Candidates for 2010 Policy Council

President-Elect: David Lane

David Lane is Reader in Management Science at London School of Economics and Political Science. His research, teaching and consultancy focus on strategic modelling and systems thinking. He has collaborated with many companies, consulting firms and government organisations.
He has mathematics degrees from Bristol and Oxford Universities and a Doctorate in mathematics also from Oxford, was a consultant in Shell International and a marketing manager in Shell UK.
Dr. Lane is on the editorial boards of Systems Research and Behavioral Science and International Journal of Operational Research. He is co-editor of the SR&BS collections emerging from the series of European System Dynamics Workshops. He is a member of both the Council and the Publication Committee of the OR Society and a Fellow of the OR Society. In 2005 he received an LSE award for outstanding performance and innovation in teaching. In 2007 he was awarded the System Dynamics Society's Jay Wright Forrester Award for outstanding contribution to the field of system dynamics. In 2008 he received a student-nominated LSE Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award.

VP Meetings: Andreas Größler

Andreas Größler is Associate Professor at the Methodology Department, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His research interests lie in the area of strategic operations management, individual and organisational decision making, and the effectiveness of organisational interventions. He was Program Chair of the 2006 international conference of the System Dynamics Society and was elected Vice President Meetings of the Society in 2007. Dr. Größler has conducted various industry projects applying system dynamics, in particular in the software and airline industries.

VP at Larg: Joel Rahn

Joel Rahn is retired since 2003 from a professorship in the Department of Operations and Decision Systems in the Faculty of Administration at Laval University. Born in Canada, he did a B.Sc. and M.Sc. at University of Toronto and completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at MIT in 1972. He did two years post-doctoral work in the Natural Resources Research Group at Dartmouth under the direction of Dennis Meadows and Dana Meadows before joining the faculty at Laval. His main interests are in methodology development, classical and alternative. He is currently Chairman of the Dana Meadows Award Committee and member of the Strategy Development Committee.

Policy Council: Laura Black

Laura Black is an assistant professor at Montana State University's College of Business and a principal at Greer Black Company. She has worked for 17 years with cross-functional efforts to solve complex organizational problems, particularly in the context of innovation and new product development.  Her research and work experiences focus on increasing productivity through better design and execution of collaborative practices and tools, and she has worked with start-up companies as well as large manufacturing, logistics, pharmaceutical, and research and development organizations.  She received her undergraduate and MBA degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Policy Council: Ignacio Martinez-Moyano

Ignacio Martinez-Moyano received his PhD from the U at Albany, and is currently a member of the technical staff at Argonne National Laboratory.

Policy Council: Martin Schaffernicht

Martin Schaffernicht is Assistant professor, College of Business Administration of the University of Talca, Chile. He has the degrees "Diplom-Volkswirt" (Degree in Economics), Freiburg (Germany), 1990 and PhD in "Sciences de Gestion" (Management science), Montpellier II (France), 2002. Martin is Assistant VP for Chapters and President of the Latin American Chapter (2006- ). He has also been active in the conference peer review process.

Policy Council: Kim Warren

Kim Warren has been with London Business School since 1990, and is now Teaching Fellow in Strategic Management. He is also founder of GSD Ltd and SDS Ltd, providers of strategy learning materials and services. Kim has an engineering background, an MBA and PhD from London Business School. His early career was spent in the oil and petrochemicals industry. He was later retail strategy director for the retailing group, Whitbread PLC, during the group’s growth and domination of several leisure sectors. Kim won the 2005 Jay W. Forrester Award for his book 'Competitive Strategy Dynamics' Wiley: July 2002 and recently launched a major strategy textbook ‘Strategic Management Dynamics’. Although largely adopted in business schools, this latest books in particular is invaluable to consultants and executives with an active involvement in strategy. He has also developed with colleagues an extensive suite of simulation-based learning materials and strategy mapping software that provide a clear understanding of this rigorous, fact-based approach to developing and managing Strategy through time. His Strategy Dynamics course has long been a popular option amongst degree students at LBS, and is also delivered via distance learning from Worcester Polytechnic. Elements of this course have been adopted by many other international Business Schools.

NG February 19, 2009