werer is an assistant Professor in the Management Science and Engineer- ing Department of Stanford university, where he is conducting research on optimal control of nonlinear systems, economics of information and uncertainty, analysis of complex systems, and corporate strategy and public policy. he holds undergradu- ate diplomas in Industrial and Electrical Engineering from Ecole central Paris and the technical university aachen, as well as M.S. degrees in technology Policy and Electrical Engineering and computer Science from MIt. he also received an M.a. in Operations and Information Management and a Ph.D. in Management Science and applied Economics from the Wharton School of the university of Pennsylvania. Dur- ing 2008, he was a visiting faculty member at the university of cambridge. he was previously a senior consultant at the boston consulting Group. he was also recently the recipient of the David Morganthaler II Faculty Scholarship at Stanford. his research interests involve the economics of information and uncertainty, and how social systems can be modeled, designed, and controlled in the presence of uncertainty. he has been developing new theoretical models and methods that have the potential to change the way in which we approach social systems, and integrate different levels of analysis. his published papers have appeared in Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, and Optimal Control Applications and Methods.