Alfonso Montouri

Editorial Review Board Member, Integration Journal

Alfonso Montouri is an educator, consultant, and musician. His transdisciplinary research has focused on the application of creativity research and complexity to better understand how to live in a complex, pluralistic, uncertain world. He has focused particularly in the areas of leadership, future studies, cultural pluralism, education, and Creative Inquiry. A graduate of the University of London, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the Saybrook Institute, he has been Distinguished Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University of Ohio, and in 1985-1986 taught at the Central South University in the People’s Republic of China. Alfonso’s books include Evolutionary Competence; From Power to Partnership (co-authored with Isabella Conti), Creators on Creating (co-edited w/Barron & Barron), and Social Creativity, vols. 1-2 (co-edited w/R. Purser). Alfonso has written numerous forewords for books on transdisciplinarity and complexity, including several by the leading French complexity thinker Edgar Morin. Alfonso has also consulted on leadership, creativity and innovation with numerous organizations.