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Board of Directors

The Director-General of WOSC is Professor Raúl Espejo (UK) who is assisted by a Board of Directors in promoting systems theory and cybernetics in the 37 countries that are involved, especially the 22 where there are affiliated societies or institutions.

The members of the Directorate are:

President

• Professor R. Vallée (France)

Vice-President

• Professor Brian H. Rudall (UK) -- Director of the Norbert Wiener Institute of WOSC

Founder and Honorary Director (In Memoriam)

• Prof. J. Rose (UK)

Director-General

• Professor Raúl Espejo (UK)

President in Memoriam

• Dr Norbert Wiener (USA)

Past-President in Memoriam

• Prof. Stafford Beer (UK)

Directors

• Dr Alex Andrew (UK)

• Dr Constantin Bilciu (USA)

• Professor Dwijesh Dutta Majumder (India)

• Professor Nan-chon Hu (P.R. of China)

• Professor Amaranto Lopes Pereira (Brazil)

• Professor Mohamed Najim (Morocco)

• Professor Martin Smith (UK)

• Professor Jerzy Józefczyk (Wrocław, Poland)

• Professor Matjaz Mulej (Maribor, Slovenia)

• Professor Markus Schwaninger (St Gallen, Switzerland)

• Professor Vadim L. Stefanuk (Moscow, Russia)

• Professor Yi Lin (Jeffrey Yi Lin Forrest) (Slippery Rock, PA, USA)

Honorary Fellowships

The following have accepted the WOSC invitation:

• Professor Julong Deng ( P.R. of China)

• D. Gabor, Nobel Laureate (UK)(In Memoriam)

• B.D. Josephson, Nobel Laureate (UK)

• L. Pauling, Nobel Laureate (USA)(In M.)

• I. Prigogine, Nobel Laureate (Belgium)(In M.)

• H.A. Simon, Nobel Laureate (USA)

• Evelyne Andreewski (France)

• A.M. Andrew, Reading (UK)

• A. Balevski, Bulgarian Acad. Sci. (Bulgaria)

• S. Beer, Manchester Business School (UK)(In M.)

• J. Bigelow, Princeton Inst. Adv. Stud. (USA)

• Zdislaw Bubnicki (Poland)(In M.)

• C. Chagas, Vatican Acad. Sci. (Brazil)

• A. Danzin, I.N.R.I.A. (France)

• D. Drimer, Ecol. Univ. Bucharest (Romania)

• R. Ericson, Soc. Gen. Syst. Res. (USA)

• R. Espejo, Univ. Lincolnshire (UK)

• F.H. George, Brunel Univ. (UK)(In M.)

• F. Geyer, Centre Co-ord. Res. Soc. Sci. (Netherlands)

• A. Ghosal, SOMAC (India)

• Hermann Haken, Stuttgart (Germany)

• T.C. Helvey, Univ. Tenn. (USA)(In M.)

• C. Hammer, Sperry-Univac (USA)(In M.)

• Jerzy Józefczyk, Wrocław (Poland)

• Kozesnik, Cze.-Slo. Acad. Sci. (In M.)

• L. Kumar, Goverm. of India (India)

• M. Manescu, Acad. Econ. Stud. (Romania)(In M.)

• M.D. Mesarovic, West. Res. Univ. (USA)

• Matjaz Mulej, Maribor (Slovenia)

• M. Nalecz, Pol. Acad. Sci. (Poland)

• E. Nicolau, Polytch. Inst. Bucharest (Romania)(In M.)

• J.D. Palmer, IEEE (USA)

• S. Ramo, T.R.W. Inc. (USA)

• B.H. Rudall, U. North Wales (UK)

• J.G. Santesmases, A.E.I.A. (Spain)(In M.)

• Sifeng Liu (P.R. of China)

• Yi Lin (USA)

• M. Valentinuzzi, Inst. Cyber. (Argentina)

• R. Vallée, Univ. Paris-Nord. (France)

• Sir G. Vickers (UK)(In M.)

• L.A. Zadeh, Univ. Cal. (USA)

• J. v.d. Zouwen, F. Univ. Am. (Netherlands)

Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal

• N. Ceausescu (1978)

• T.C. Helvey (1981)

• S. Beer (1984)

• J. Rose (1987)

• R. Vallée (1990)

• H. von Foerster (1995)

• B.H. Rudall (1996)

• I. Prigogine (1999)

• C. Pert (2000)

• Alex Andrew (2009)

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