About GPR

George P. Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany and affiliated Professor of Informatics in the College of Computing and Information.  He has held various administration positions in the department of public administration and policy, including directing each of the MPA, MPP, and PhD degree programs and serving most recently for eight years as Chair of the Department.

With degrees from Harvard (AB), the University of Chicago (MAT), and MIT (PhD), his teaching, research, and consulting center on computer modeling and simulation in support of systems thinking in public affairs.  His recent work has focused on public policy problems in social welfare, public health, and interagency collaboration, and the use of formal computer-based tools and models to help groups move toward policy consensus in complex dynamic systems.  He founded and served for seven years as the executive editor of the System Dynamics Review, published by Wiley-Blackwell. 

Richardson’s publications include more than seventy articles and book chapters on theory, methods, and applications of system dynamics modeling.  He has won the System Dynamics Society’s prestigious Jay Wright Forrester Award twice, for Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with DYNAMO (1981) and for Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory (1991). He also edited the two-volume collection Modeling for Management: Simulation in Support of Systems Thinking (1996).

 In 2003 he was honored with the University at Albany’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the corresponding state-wide award given by the Chancellor of the State University of New York.  In 2010 he was similarly honored with the University’s and Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Academic Service.  In 2011 the System Dynamics Society recognized his lifetime contributions to the Society and the field with its Outstanding Service Award. In 2012 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.

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Many thanks to our daughter, Sara Ann Richardson, professional graphic designer, for her help on this website!