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Professor Nigel Howard
Nigel Howard was Managing Director and Chairman of ISCO Ltd and Visiting Professor at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His early work in game theory focused on the practical “dilemmas” created when one tries to take a purely “rational” approach to human interactions. His work remained practical, while remaining focused on this same problem. His methods were applied, in the late sixties, to the first SALT agreement, nuclear proliferation, and Vietnam; they have since been used on many business and governmental policy problems. Later he was chief developer of a new approach—“drama theory.” He taught at the LSE and the universities of Pennsylvania, Waterloo, Ottawa, and Aston. From 1987 to 1997 he published a bimonthly research letter, Cooperation or Conflict, now an Internet site (www.nhoward.demon.co.uk\ drama.htm). From 1997 he applied a technique derived from drama theory—Confrontation Analysis—to defense problems, in particular to Peace Operations. He was engaged in a project for a Command and Control System for Confrontations. In the non-defense sector, he was involved in work on both mergers and acquisitions, and also in designing a “virtual hospital” for medical personnel training.

He died, aged 73 in 2008