Edward F. Crawley

Edward Crawley is the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, where he has been on the faculty since 1980. From 2011 to 2016 he served simultaneously as the founding President and CEO of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow Russia, a new science-based university dedicated to driving innovation in the Russian economy. In the US he has participated in the founding of four technology-based entrepreneurial companies (ACX, Bisoscale, DataXu and Ekotrope), and for nine years was a member of the board of the Orbital Science Corporation (now merged into Orbital ATK).

At MIT, his research has focused recently on the domain of the architecture, design and decision support in complex technical systems, summarized in his recent book – System Architecture: the strategy and design of complex products (Pearson 2015).

Dr. Crawley is a member of four national academies of engineering: the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, the (UK) Royal Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Engineering.