Who's who

Dr Barbara Fasolo

Email: b.fasolo@lse.ac.uk

Dr Barbara Fasolo is  lecturer in Decision Sciences at the London School of Economics. She is director of the MSc Decision Sciences at the LSE and has more than 10 years experience teaching behavioural decision making to international students of different backgrounds and professions. She researches decision behaviour and implications for policy making, managerial practice and personal development.  She is the member of the editorial board of the journal Economic Psychology. More information is available at http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/operationalResearch/whosWho/dr_barbara_fasolo.htm.

Dr David Lane

Email: d.c.lane@lse.ac.uk

Dr. David Lane is Reader in Management Science at LSE. He specialises in strategic analysis, in particular system dynamics and systems thinking. He works interactively with groups of senior managers to help them express their ideas in the form of a system dynamics–based simulation model. The model and the facilitated process help managers to think through the long-term policies of their organisation. He has mathematics degrees from Bristol and Oxford Universities and a Doctorate in mathematical modelling also from Oxford, was a consultant in Shell International and a marketing manager in Shell UK. Dr. Lane sits on the editorial boards of two international journals and is a Fellow of the OR Society. In 2007 he was awarded the System Dynamics Society's Jay Wright Forrester Award for outstanding contribution to the field of system dynamics.

Dr Gilberto Montibeller

Email: g.montibeller@lse.ac.uk

Dr Gilberto Montibeller is Lecturer in Decision Sciences, in the Department of Management, at the London School of Economics. With a first degree in Electrical Engineering he started his career as an executive at British and American Tobacco. Moving back to the academia he was awarded a Masters and then a PhD in Production Engineering. An expert on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, he has extensive experience in applying it during the past 10 years − both in private and public organisations in Europe and South America − specialising in the fields of operation and financial/resource management. Dr Montibeller is the Assistant Editor of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and member of both the Decision Analysis Society and of the International Society of Multi-Criteria Decision Making. He has published papers in top scientific journals in the field. One of his papers, on the evaluation of strategic options and scenario planning, was recently awarded the Wiley Prize in Applied Decision Analysis.

More information is available at: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/MONTIBEL/index.htm

Dr Alec Morton

Email: a.morton@lse.ac.uk

Alec Morton is a Lecturer in Operational Research at the London School of Economics, where he teaches decision analysis and simulation.  He has experience of decision and systems modelling across a range of domains, including transport, environment, health and security, and has a strong commitment to the use of analytic methods in the regulation and management of the public sector.  During the first half of 2008, he was on secondment from the LSE as Visiting Senior Fellow at the UK’s National Audit Office.  He is the Chair of the Decision Analysis Special Interest Group of the Operational Research Society.  More information is available at http://personal.lse.ac.uk/MORTONA/

Melody Zhifang Ni

Email: z.ni@imperial.ac.uk

Melody studied Decision Sciences at the London School of Economics. Her PhD thesis investigated decision makers' preferences for future outcomes, in particular those outcomes that form a sequence. In 2007, she joined Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College and became a decision analyst. Recently, working with Larry Phillips and a medical team headed by Mr. George Hanna, she built Bayesian networks to inform the development of clinical safety guidelines, the first such attempt in UK. Her current research focuses on (a) using decision analysis to advocate evidence-based medicine and (b) understanding risk perceptions and behaviours in response to dreadful events. She is associated with the Clinical Safety Research Unit at Imperial, London Judgment and Decision Making Group, and Society of Judgment and Decision Making.

More information is available at www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/z.ni/

Professor Larry Phillips

Email: l.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Professor Lawrence Phillips is a Visiting Professor of Operational Research at the London School of Economics and a Director Catalyze Limited. Larry developed decision conferencing, a process for helping groups of key players to find solutions to complex issues of concern to their organisation. Larry Phillips has more than 25 years of expertise in aiding decision makers to analyse complex issues involving uncertainty, risk, and multiple, conflicting objectives. He is author of over 100 publications, an editor of the journal Decision Analysis, and recognised as a leading international practitioner in the areas of decision analysis and group facilitation. In 2005 the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS awarded him the Frank P. Ramsey medal ‘for distinguished contributions in decision analysis’. More information is available at www.lawrencephillips.net.

Cornelius Schaub

Email: c.schaub@lse.ac.uk

Cornelius Schaub is founding director of the Decision Institute and member of the LSE Decision Capability Unit. Building on his education in economics and decision science as well as work experience at the OECD and in management consulting he has been working as a decision analyst in public and private sector organizations since 2004.

His research interests lie in the fields of decision science and economics with a current focus on the evaluation of strategic cost-benefit analyses and multi criteria analysis, as well as M&A targeting and R&D portfolio management. He publishes in international journals and has taught at the London School of Economics and the Hertie School of Governance.

Dr Martin Schilling

Email: m.schilling@lse.ac.uk

As visiting fellow at London School of Economics, Martin Schilling is for building up the ELSE Decision Service Unit. Martin's research interests currently focus on analytical methods and processes for strategy development and prioritization decisions in the public and private sector as well as on negotiation strategies in collective bargaining. He holds degrees in the area of decision science and psychology and teaches at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. One emphasis of his work is on 'outreach' - the transfer of useful theory in the areas decision analysis and negotiation analysis from academia into practice and vice versa. Through his work for the Decision Institute (www.decisioninstitute.eu) Martin gained experience in the areas of change management, prioritisation decisions and performance management.

Prof Detlof von Winterfeldt

Director of the US Homeland Security Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)

Dr Detlof von Winterfeldt is director of the USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. CREATE is working to build predictive models that gauge how and where terrorist events occur, estimate the economic consequences of such attacks and identify where the country's vulnerabilities reside. Dr. von Winterfeldt's research background is in decision and risk analysis applied to environmental, technology, and security problems. He has conducted major studies of the risks and economic consequences of dirty bomb attacks on the ports of Los Angeles and surface-to-air missile attacks in the US. He has served on several committees and panels of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Academies, In 2000, he received the Ramsey medal from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis. For more information see: www.usc.edu/create.

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