Gianfranco Minati graduated in Mathematics from the University of Milan, Italy. He has switched from a position as executive in a large industrial-financial Italian group (1979–1984) to Research. He is founder and president of the Italian Systems Society, President of the Systems Science European Union and doctoral lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is author, co-author and editor of several academic publications. His current research interest focuses on: modelling processes of emergence by using Meta-Structures; the emerging of a post-Bertalanffy Systemics; the Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM), Logical Openness; Architecture and Design as the design of social meta-structures to influence processes of emergence in social systems. In the US he was Consulting Faculty at the Saybrook University, San Francisco, (professor Arne Collen), adjunct faculty at the Ohio State University (OSU), (professor Larry Magliocca).
