Executive Director

Psychology Professor, Director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initative at ASU, and author of The Cheating Cell and A Field Guide to the Apocalypse. Aktipis studies cooperation, conflict, and decision-making across systems. As the founding director of CFI, she draws on decades of research in cooperation science and a career devoted to public engagement, from creating the Zombified Podcast and The Apocalypse Roadshow to writing books and articles that bring cooperation science to wider audiences.

Director of Education & Academic Partnerships

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and author of Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation. Cronk studies cooperation and cultural evolution, with a focus on how people share resources and solve collective problems. He has pinoeered interactive teaching tools and curriculum for cooperation science education. At CFI, he leads efforts to expand education, training, and academic collaborations in cooperation science.

Director of Human–Technology Systems

Provost Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and author of Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart and Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World. Todd studies cooperation, decision-making, and how people think about the future, guiding CFI’s work on building adaptive, cooperative human–technology systems.

Director of Intergenerational Transmission & Cultural Systems

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at The University of Utah and Arizona State University. She is a member of The National Academy of Sciences. Weissner has studied the role of technology in social and cultural change in small-scale societies, from the role of firelight to social media. She founded the Tradition and Transition Centre in Papua New Guinea to preserve and transmit Enga culture to the next generation.