Christoph E. Mandl is an adjunct professor at the University of Vienna and a senior lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the Balaton Group, a founding member of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning Communities, and a founding member of the Austrian Society of Operations Research. He was formerly a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, and a member of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. Christoph holds a Ph.D. in Operations-Research from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.