Gerald Midgley

Gerald Midgley is an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull, UK. He also holds visiting positions at the University of Birmingham (UK), the Australian National University and Linnaeus University (Sweden). Gerald has held research leadership roles in both academia and government, including fourteen years as Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull, and seven years as a Senior Science Leader in the Institute for Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand. He has written almost 400 papers on systems thinking, systemic leadership and community operational research, and has been involved in 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 twelve 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).