Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam

Yaneer Bar-Yam (born 1959) is an Ame­ri­can sci­en­tist and acti­vist spe­cia­li­zing in com­plex sys­tems. An expert in the quan­ti­ta­ti­ve ana­ly­sis of pan­de­mics, he advi­sed poli­cy makers on the Wes­tern Afri­can Ebo­la virus epi­de­mic^[1] and foun­ded EndCoronavirus.org, a glo­bal net­work of over 4,000 vol­un­teers for­med in Febru­ary 2020 to pro­vi­de infor­ma­ti­on, gui­de­lines, and poli­cy advo­ca­cy to fight the COVID-19 pan­de­mic.^[2] He is the foun­ding pre­si­dent of the New Eng­land Com­plex Sys­tems Insti­tu­te (NECSI), an inde­pen­dent rese­arch insti­tu­ti­on that stu­dies com­plex sys­tems sci­ence and its real-world applications.