Gary Robert Smith
Based in the UK. Is a senior expert systems engineer at Airbus, an systems of systems architect/technical manager and is engaged on enterprise transformational programmes. He is an INCOSE ESEP and helped to establish their PM-SE Integration Working Group. He is also the senior editor for the SEBOK - section 2: System Foundations. He is our INCOSE liason. Has also studied and published a series of papers attempting to understand biosystem complexity and the underlying patterns in disease conditions. "Cancer, Inflammation and the AT1 and AT2 receptors", "Angiotensin and Systems Thinking - Wrapping your mind around the big picture", Architectural Parallels between engineered and biological defence and Security". Most recently he was a coauthor of a paper in frontiers of medicine - "The Lung, the Heart, the Novel Coronavirus, and the Renin-Angiotensin System; The Need for Clinical Trials" With Brigitte Daniel Allegro they published "Exploring the branches of the system landscape" - the branches being the attitudes of the systems thinker, and the roots being the system concepts that they think about. Has co-lead two IFSR conversations "Unity in diversity" and "What is system science?". Is currently helping to establish an architecture for system science, to facilitate a shared orientation to establish a learning system for our knowledge about systems and knowledge about how we engage with systems.