Jac L.A. Geurts
Professor of policy and strategy, Department of Organizational Sciences, University of Tilburg, Netherlands

Dr. Geurts joins the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise as a visiting scholar for the spring semester 2007. He will be conducting research and teaching a course entitled, "Systems Tools for Sustainable Enterprise: Concepts, Methods and Applications". Dr. Geurts is a Professor of policy and strategy in the Department of Organizational Sciences at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands. He also teaches at the TIAS Business School, University of Tilburg.

Professor Jac L.A. Geurts specializes in the use of gaming/simulations for strategy and policy. His primary academic focus is on the processes and tools used in strategic decision making. Dr. Geurts is currently engaged in a number of empirical studies on the impact of strategic process interventions on decision quality. His area of applied work is the development of sustainable business practices and technologies especially in the broad area of public health and health care.

Dr. Geurts served as director IVA, the Tilburg Institute for Social Research. He is also a former president of the International Simulation and Gaming Association. Dr. Geurts has consulted on strategic issues to governments, private companies and not-for-profit organizations in Europe, USA and Asia. Dr. Geurts received his PhD in Sociology from Radboud University Nijmegen. He has taught methods of policy analysis at Radboud University and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Michigan. For the period 1987-1991, Dr. Geurts worked with Philips International, Eindhoven as their Innovation Management Consultant for the Department of Corporate Organization and Efficiency, Innovation Management Consulting Team.

Contact Information
E-mail: jlg338@cornell.edu