Talks:
Alexis Tsoukiàs
Policy Analytics: what’s about?
Abstract
The use of evidence in order to conceive and implement public policies is now both possible and desirable. However, recent findings show that although evidence is a a necessary information in order to improve the policy cycle management, it is far from being sufficient. Public policies remain a very complicate issue with respect to the current level of available analytics. The talk tries to understand what makes public policy desing, implementation and assessment specific and then identifies specific requirements for what we call “policy analytics”. We then focus on how the use of such formal analytical tools can help in innovative design of policies (allowing to conceive actions until now unconceivable).
About the lecturer
Alexis Tsoukiàs (Greece, 1959) is a CNRS research director at LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine. He holds (1989) a PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) where he also graduated engineering studies. His research interests include subjects such as: multiple criteria decision analysis, non conventional preference modelling, policy analytics, applied non classical logics, ordinal mathematical programming, artificial intelligence and decision theory. He is the co-author of two books and more than 80 journal articles and book contributions. He has been vice-president of ROADEF (the french OR society) as well as President of EURO (the European association of OR societies). In 2007 he was coordinator of the European COST Action IC0602, Algorithmic Decision Theory funded within the FP7. He served the Research Administration in several positions, including the National Committee of the CNRS and the Sientific Board of the National Institute of Computer Science of the CNRS. Presently he is the Director of the LAMSADE and national coordinator of the Policy Analytics Research Network (GDR 3270, www.gdr3720,fr). Besides teaching to several post-graduate classes in Paris and world-wide, he is coordinator of the Peace Studies Master at Université Paris Dahpine. He occasionally practices decision support, mainly in the area of public policy. He has been invited to more than 30 Universities world-wide. He is member of several editorial boards, besides editing special issues of journals and conference volumes. He has been involved in the Programme and Organisation Committees of several conferences in Decision Analysis, OR and AI.