Max Henrion

Max Henrion, PhD, is the CEO of Lumina, and the originator of Analytica, Lumina’s flagship software. He specializes in the design of effective decision technologies, with extensive experience as a researcher, educator, software designer, consultant, and entrepreneur. Max has conducted decision analyses and lead teams on a wide variety of projects in energy, environment, R&D management, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace, security, and consumer choice.

Max was previously a Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon. He has been a Consulting Professor at Stanford, and a member of the Science Advisory Board of the US EPA. At Ask Jeeves, he was Vice President for Decision Technology, leading a team to provide online consumer advice. Max has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, Master of Design from the Royal College of Art, London, and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. He has published three books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles in energy and environment, risk and uncertainty, software design, and AI.

Max lead a decision analysis of decommissioning offshore oil platforms that won the 2014 Decision Analysis Practice Award from the Decision Analysis Society (DAS). He received the 2018 Frank Ramsey Medal the highest award from the DAS.