Dr Angela Espinosa is an internationally recognised leader in Organisational Cybernetics and complexity management, with more than four decades of contributions to research, practice and international academic leadership. Working closely with Professor Stafford Beer early in her career, she became one of the most influential scholars extending and applying the Viable System Model (VSM). She co-founded and continues to lead Metaphorum, the global cooperative developing Beer’s scientific legacy.

Her work bridges theory and practice through systemic interventions with governments, public agencies, corporations, NGOs and communities across Latin America, Europe and the UK. She has shaped national policies, organisational reforms, and sustainability strategies using cybernetic and complexity-based approaches.

She has published widely in leading journals and authored seminal books including ‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Business and Society’ (Routledge, 2023), and ‘A Complexity Approach to Sustainability: Theory and Applications’ (with Jon Walker). She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull Business School, where she worked until 2018. She has been an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University, and Associate Professor at Los Andes University. She is Vice President of the International Federation of Systems Research, Fellow of the Cybernetics Society, and a member of the World Organisation for Systems and Cybernetics’ Board (WOSC). She is recipient of the Ashby Lecture (2002), Norbert Wiener Award (2007), EPSRC Fellowships (2007–2010), and multiple Marquis Who’s Who listings.