Albert Cath

Albert Cath is Assistant Professor at The American University of Paris and has been active for more than 30 years as a self-employed organizational researcher and advisor. His primarily fields of activity encompass(ed) organization that operate in the following domains: Water Management, Traffic and Transport, Climate Change and Sustainability Business, Healthcare, the Cultural Sector, Industry (R & D) and Knowledge-based Institutes (especially boundary organization between science and policy). He teaches courses in management and organizational behavior, international business, leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship, management of complexity and global sustainability management (Climate Change) in both the graduate and undergraduate programs in the Department of Economics and Management.

His teaching, research, and consulting practice involves the understanding of complex thinking and coping with complex issues (social complexity theory, critical management studies). The inherent complexity of an issue is, for him, a starting point in the problem-solving, instead of reducing the issue, as often happens to top-down blueprints. This starting point has at least three implications in the design, reflexivity and the (re)search for problem-solving directions: introducing a plurality of perspectives, co-framing through stakeholder’s participation and stimulating 'self-eco[re-]organization', as an expression of ‘bottom-up' processes at the crossroads between society, organization, the individual and knowledge. He also teaches part-time at iArts in Maastricht and supervises research master thesis at NSO-CNA Leadership Academy in Amsterdam. Furthermore, he has designed and facilitated a myriad of workshops for the public and the private sector.