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userWIFIVOLUME-UPCOMMENT INBOX Q&A — Raya Muttarak FROM THE EDITOR As we continue to grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are proud to present you with this special edition of Options magazine, in which our focus has been to highlight the work IIASA researchers have been doing to provide science-based insights to policymakers, despite the strange new normal we are all still getting used to. In our cover feature, we showcase IIASA researchers’ involvement in addressing emerging issues and supporting policymakers on the road to a more sustainable post-COVID world (pages 10-15). The lockdown measures instituted during the pandemic has caused the international research community to move its activities online almost overnight. In our second feature, we explore what this has meant for IIASA and our ability to produce and communicate research (pages 16-17). In these times of rapid change, IIASA is also on the verge of embarking on a bold new strategy, which will ensure that the institute continues to provide independent, systems science-based insights to global and universal challenges over the next decade. Read more about this on pages 18-19. If you would like to share your thoughts on an article you read in this issue or have ideas for topics that you would like to see covered in coming issues of Options, please get in touch with us via email. Philippa Baumgartner Communications Manager baumgartner@iiasa.ac.at ABOUT OPTIONS Options magazine features recent IIASA research and activities. Editor: Philippa Baumgartner Writers: Monika Bauer, Shorouk Elkobros, Michael Fitzpatrick, Bettina Greenwell, Ansa Heyl, Greg Davies Jones, Katherine Leitzell, Rachel Potter, Jeremy Summers Expert reviewers: Peter Burek, Robert Burtscher, Luis Gomez Echeverri, Tatiana Ermolieva, Franziska Gaupp, Heide Hackmann, HRH Princess Sumaya bint Hassan, Lena Höglund Isaksson, Nadejda Komendantova, Tamas Krisztin, David Leclere, Ian McCallum, Reinhard Mechler, Junko Mochizuki, Raya Muttarak, Asjad Naqvi, Shonali Pachauri, Joeri Rogelj, Elena Rovenskaya, Leena Ilmola-Sheppard, Aline Soterroni, Frank Sperling, Leena Srivastava, Hugo Valin, Albert van Jaarsveld, Yoshihide Wada, Matthias Wildemeersch, Yurii Yermoliev, Behnam Zakeri Graphic design: Adam Islaam Cover: © Adam Islaam | IIASA This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For any commercial use please contact: permissions@iiasa.ac.at — ZVR 524808900 HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan Heide Hackmann The post-COVID digital workplace COVID-19: A SHOCK TO THE GLOBAL SYSTEM A roadmap for the future of systems science at IIASA © M ihai N eacsu | D ream stim e 2 IIASA Strategy 2021-2030 www.iiasa.ac.at www.iiasa.ac.at IIASA Strategy 2021-2030 3 MISSION Established in 1972, the initial mission of IIASA was to build bridges across the Cold War divide and confront growing global and international problems through scientific cooperation. The institute was tasked with supporting research addressing problems of modern societies arising from scientific and technological development, and to undertake its own studies into both methodological and applied research in the related fields of systems analysis, cybernetics, operations research, and management techniques. Today, while keeping a focus on the increasingly complex problems created by rapid scientific and technological development in an inter-connected world, the institute’s perspective has evolved from a focus on systems analysis to a broader systems science approach to build bridges between countries and stakeholders in the pursuit of sustainable development. IIASA vision 2021–2030To be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging, and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities. Reducing footprints, enhancing resilience Systems science for transformations to sustainability IIASA Strategy 2021–2030