My main area of research and practice is the creative use of systems thinking to complex situations. 

Career

I gained a computer science and systems engineering degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, my native country.  In Colombia, I also helped run a family business and worked as a software programmer, business analyst and project administrator for 5 years before being awarded a Colfuturo scholarship to study an MA in Management Systems (Systems Thinking) at Hull University's Centre for Systems Studies in the UK.  I was then offered a university full PhD scholarship to carry out my research on systems thinking and ethics applied to information systems. 

At Hull, I was then awarded an ESRC research fellowship to do a post-doctoral consolidation of journal articles, profile networking and guest lecturing on systems thinking, information systems and ethics.  I became a lecturer in management systems at Hull for a number of years.  

After, I moved to Royal Holloway where I have gained extensive leadership and pedagogical experience, whilst striving to keep an adequate work life balance. 

Teaching

I currently teach a course on creative process management at the undergraduate level that incorporates creativity and systems thinking techniques to explore complex situations in relation to sustainability (food and its waste for example). 

I also teach a postgraduate course on digital innovation where we look at systemic innovation to make sense of existing ideas, case studies and practices about digital transformation.  I support the undergraduate operations management course and annually supervise several Masters students.

PhD Supervision

Supervised PhD students in areas like organisational communication (Wenxian Sun), electronic government (Endrit Kromidha), online distance education (Sulafah Basahel) and cloud computing (Khalid Al Zadjali, co-supervised).

Journal Editorship

Currently associated to the Journal Systems Research and Behavioural Science as an application area editor for systems thinking and social responsibility.  

Systems Thinking Blog 

• https://systemsthinkinglenses.blogspot.com