Creative Decisions Foundation Events
Organizing Team
Creative Decisions Foundation ICEFM2024 Program Committee
Steering Committee
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Rozann W. Saaty
President, Executive Director
Creative Decisions Foundation
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Elena Rokou
Chief Research Officer
Creative Decisions Foundation
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Anna Florek-Paszkowska
Profesor
Centrum Católica Business School, PUCP
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Lirong Wei
Content Manager
Creative Decisions Foundation
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Rozann Saaty is currently the President and Executive Director of the Creative Decisions Foundation, a charitable organization to promote the cause of rational decision-making, founded by Rozann and her husband, Thomas L. Saaty, in 1996. The Foundation carries out such activities as sponsoring meetings of the bi-annual International Society of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP), funding research and development into software using advanced decision-making techniques, and other activities to increase awareness of analytic decision-making methods. She has played an active role in the biennial meetings of the International Society of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and is the managing editor of the online journal that publishes papers on the AHP/ANP, IJAHP. She also publishes books through her company, RWS Publications, on decision-making with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). She directed the development of the software Super Decisions that implements the Analytic Network Process (ANP) for decision making with dependence and feedback. Ms. Whitaker holds a B.S. and an M.S. degree in mathematics from the New Mexico Institute of Technology.
Dr. Elena Rokou is the Chief Research Officer at Creative Decisions Foundation, the AHP/ANP research institute funded by Dr Thomas Saaty. She holds a PhD degree in the field of operational research, focusing on project scheduling and evolutionary algorithms from the National Technical University of Athens, Mechanical Engineering School, Sector of Industrial Management and Operational Research, a MSc in Management Engineering and a Computer Science BSc. Her main research interests cover project scheduling, optimization, evolutionary algorithms, MCDA and decision support tools. Specialties: resource scheduling and levelling, combinatorial optimization algorithms, ANP and group decision making.
Dr. Anna Florek-Paszkowska, Professor at Centrum PUCP Business School, Lima, Peru, President of the Network Analysis Laboratory at Cognitione Foundation, and an inductee into Beta Gamma Sigma from November 2023. Holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Management Science) from the University of Warsaw, a student of Prof. hc Dr. Thomas L. Saaty, and has authored over 60 publications on decision-making in economics, management, and sustainable development. In recognition of her outstanding research, Dr. Florek-Paszkowska was awarded a prestigious postdoctoral research fellowship for 2023 at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Additionally, she has been a visiting scholar at LASA, University of Pittsburgh. Her roles include chairing and organizing international conferences, judging global hackathons, and being honored as the "Reviewer of the Year 2023" by the Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science Journal, underscoring her dedication to maintaining high standards in research and scholarly publications. Dr. Florek-Paszkowska's research expertise encompasses the applications of AHP/ANP in economics and management, focusing on sustainability, virtual education, sustainable food production and consumption, and food cooperatives.
Dr. Lirong Wei holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Management Engineering from the University of Science and Technology China and a Master's in Statistics from the University of Pittsburgh. Her expertise lies in decision-making theories and the practical application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP). Currently serving as the Content Manager of Creative Decisions Foundation, Area Editor at the International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (IJAHP) and actively supports in organizing the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (ISAHP) and the Thomas L. Saaty Decision Making for Leaders Hackathon.
ICEFM2024 Organizers
The Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) was established in 1996 by Thomas L. Saaty, creator of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) theory of decision making, and his wife Rozann Whitaker Saaty. CDF's mission is to promote rational decision making using the Analytic Process based methods.
The Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Instytut Nauk Ekonomicznych PAN, abbreviation: INE PAN) is a public Polish research center for economic and business studies. It was founded December 10, 1980. Its offices are located in the Staszic Palace and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Organizationally, it is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences.The Institute of Economics has the rights to bestow doctoral degrees, habilitation degrees and to initiate the professorship procedure. Some of its MBA and DBA prominent programs are the most modern programs in Poland which are internationally recognized.
Centrum PUCP: The Business School with Positive Impact is a dynamic and innovative institution dedicated to fostering a new generation of business leaders committed to making a positive difference in society. Emphasizing values of sustainability, social responsibility, and ethical leadership, this school integrates business education with a mission to create meaningful impact.
The Cognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Science was created by its founder, Dr. Hab. Anna Ujwary-Gil in 2015. The Foundation is a legal entity certified by the National Court Register number: 587704, issued on 25 November 2015 by the District Court for Kraków-Śródmieście in Kraków, 11th Commercial Division of the National Court Register.