Professor Kambiz Maani - Biography

Professor Kambiz Maani is leading the 17 April 2009 workshop 'System Thinking to Solve Complex Problems'.

Professor Maani is the holder of UQ-AgResearch Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice at the University of Queensland. Dr. Maani’s academic and consulting career spans over 25 years in the USA, Asia, Australasia, and South America.

He is an internationally acknowledged expert in systems thinking, organizational learning and leadership. He studied engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (USA).

Professor Maani’s research focuses on complex decision making, managerial effectiveness, and collective learning in organisations. He is the recipient of several research and publication awards from international academic journals.

He has published widely and has consulted to numerous organisations in Australasia and around the world. Kambiz has lectured internationally and has held visiting positions at a number of universities including MIT, London Business School (LBS), Boston University, Cornel and Helsinki School of Economics. At MIT he has collaborated with Professor Peter Senge, the best selling author of The Fifth Discipline.

Before to joining the University of Queensland, Kambiz was with the University of Auckland where he founded the Department of Management Science and the Business School Division at Tamaki. He is co-author of the leading book: Systems thinking, Systems Dynamics - Managing Change and Complexity. The book, now in second edition, is used widely at universities and corporations around the world.

Kambiz’s executive courses on systems thinking and organisational learning have been offered internationally to universities, government agencies and corporations. They include

• Aetna Health
• KPMG
• UNISYS
• Morgan & Banks
• Rand Corp
• Digital Corp
• Tianjin Hi-Tech Group (China)
• NZ Ministry of Health
• Mercy Hospital
• Zuellig Pharma
• ACC
• UniChem
• Fisher & Paykel
• TVNZ
• Babbage- Simmel
• Fletcher Challenge
• CHH
• MAF
• Royal NZ Navy
• Fairfax
• Southern Cross Healthcare
• Meridian Energy
• Dept. of Child Youth and Family
• ADIS International
• Ministry of Transport
• Golden Group (Taiwan)
• RITI (Egypt)
• CAIT (Rutgers University, USA)
• Fonterra