Professor Piero Dominici

“Listening is the fundamental and indispensable prerequisite for that ‘new culture of communication’ – which is the ‘culture of complexity and responsibility’ – that I’ve been discussing in my studies and research since the mid-1990s. Specifically, communication – which should not be confused with “media,” marketing, or, worse still, “connection” – is, as I defined it many years ago, “a social process of sharing knowledge (= power).” Prof Piero Dominici.

Prof. Piero Dominici earned his international Ph.D. – with a grade of ‘excellence’ – from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” focusing on the study of complex social systems, the strategic importance of the epistemology of error, and the co-construction of a ‘new culture of communication’ in which listening is a fundamental prerequisite.

Prof. Piero Dominici , Awarded title of Full Professor, World-leading Social Scientist, philosopher, Educator and Systems Thinker, is Scientific Director of CHAOS (2011) – International Research and Education Programme on “Complex Human Adaptive Organizations and Systems” -, UNESCO IPL Expert and official delegate to UNESCO. He is Executive President of the Board of Directors of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI).

Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), UN Expert and invited speaker, he is Director (Scientific Listening) at the Global Listening Center.

Vice President of the WCSA LatAm, Expert of JRC Group – European Commission – and Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), he teaches Complex Systems and Management of Security, Public Communication, Education towards Complexity and Unpredictability, Sociology of Social Complexity, Global Networks and Security and Intelligence. Complex Systems and Networks, at the University of Perugia and he is a referee for prestigious scientific journals worldwide.

As scientific researcher, educator, author and international speaker for almost thirty years, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (hyper)complexity, complex systems, transdisciplinarity and knowledge sharing in the fields of education, higher education, systems theory, technology, intelligence, security, citizenship and communication.

Member of the MIUR Register of Revisers (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research) and Fellow of the New England Complex Systems Institute and of European Complex Systems Society, he is also standing member of several of the most prestigious national and international scientific committees.

He is the author of numerous research articles, nine monographs and over 200 essays and international scientific publications; over the last thirty years, he has worked in the fields of complexity, complex adaptive systems and higher education, focusing on the epistemology and methodology of research, paradigm shifts in science, innovation, listening and transdisciplinarity.