Your current ASC Executive Board members are listed below.
 

Your current Ombudspersons are listed below.
 

Louis Kauffman is a topologist working in knot theory and its relationships with statistical mechanics, quantum theory, algebra, combinatorics and foundations.
 

Ranulph Glanville has a particular interest in circular systems and the consequences of taking them seriously. As a result, he has developed a particular enjoyment of the Black Box as a model that requires the participation of the observer in building descriptions of the behaviour of systems, leading to an understanding of knowing as based on profound ignorance. He has developed a Theory of Objects‹ those things about which we can (as a result of their self- referential qualities) behave as if we see the same thing when each observer observes differently, from which he developed a temporal logic. His work is largely philosophical in intent, but has a deep connection with design and research.
 

Rebecca holds an M.Sc (1982) in Human Factors Engineering from Loughborough University of Technology, England and an MA (2002) in Holistic Systems Design from Antioch University, Seattle, WA. She spent her career mostly in the aerospace industry analyzing systems for cognitive user interface issues over a wide array of formats (e.g., mechanical, computing, organizational, training etc.). In 1990, while working in flight deck design at the Boeing Company, she began specializing in error reduction inside complex systems. This work triggered her return to school to study systemic understanding, human cognition and self awareness. Rebecca currently lives with her husband in Sacramento, CA.
 

ASC's 'VPEP' has focused his scholarship upon cognition, epistemology, semiotics, and their relationships to human interactivity. He is the creator and steward of The Observer Web -- the largest Internet resource on autopoiesis and enaction.
 

Kathleen Forsythe is a knowledge architect and poet who works in the environmental and e-commerce industries from her home in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

Philip Lewin is an independent scholar living in Eugene, Oregon. His primary interest is in epistemology, that is, in the general question of how we make sense of and function within the world while maintaining a self-legitimating sanity. His involvement with ASC grew out of his graduate work in the late 1970s. Among his primary influences at that time were studies on Jean Piaget with Ernst von Glasersfeld, summer courses with Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela on biological epistemology, and the revelation that was his first reading of Gregory Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind. These influences continue.
 

Allenna Leonard, Ph.D., works in Toronto Canada and internationally, specializing in the application of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Syntegration.