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Alexander N. Christakis is Past President 2002-03 of ISSS.
Personal Life
Alexander (Aleco) Christakis was born in Crete in 1937. He moved to the USA in 1956.
Academia and Career
Christakis received his PhD in theoretical physics at Yale. He started working with the Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis as urban planner, developing a scientific approach to planning and large scale design. He later moved to Virginia and George Mason universities to join John N. Warfield in developing the Interactive Management (IM) system for addressing very complex problems. In 1989, he established his own consultancy, CWA Ltd., dedicated to applying and testing IM in the arena for corporate practice. In 2002, he co-founded the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, dedicated to fostering an effective bottom-up and democratic approach to stakeholder solutions to civic crises.