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Catalyze Director Receives Award

Professor Larry Phillips receives Frank P. Ramsey Medal

Catalyze Principal Facilitator and LSE Visiting Professor of Operational Research Prof. Larry Phillips, has been honoured by the Decision Analysis Society by receiving the organisations highest award; the Frank P. Ramsey Medal.

The award was presented to Professor Phillips at the INFORMS meeting in San Francisco in November. The Ramsey Medal recognises distinguished contributions to the field of decision theory and its application to important classes of real decision problems. Prof. Phillips is the 17th medallist, the first in an institution outside the United States.

Prof. Phillips has been involved in behavioural decision theory and the development of decision analysis throughout his career, since his PhD under the guidance of Prof Ward Edwards at the University of Michigan in the 1960s. He came to the UK in 1966 to take up a post at Brunel University, where he founded the Decision Analysis Unit, and has remained in London ever since, moving to the LSE in 1982.

Also a founding director of Catalyze Ltd, Prof. Phillips provides unique thought leadership in the field of Decision Analysis and the wider aspects of the Decision Sciences helping a growing list of clients.