Systemist. Change-maker. Writer.#
Gerald Midgley is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University. He is also an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull (UK), and holds Visiting Professorships at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Linnaeus University (Sweden). Gerald has held research leadership roles in both UK academia and New Zealand government. He has undertaken a wide variety of public policy, public health, natural resource management, community development and technology foresight projects. While most of these have been in the UK or New Zealand, he has also led or collaborated with systemic interventions on every continent, world-wide. Gerald was the 2013/14 President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He has written or edited almost 400 papers and 12 books, including Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice (Kluwer, 2000); Systems Thinking (Sage, 2003); Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development (Kluwer, 2004); The Handbook of Systems Thinking (Open Science, 2023); and Systems of Marginalization and Identity (Routledge, 2025, in press).
Areas of Expertise: Systems Thinking, Systemic Leadership, Public Policy, Community Development, Community Operational Research, Systemic Service Design, Food Systems, Technology Foresight.