Dr. Page’s research focuses on the function of diversity in complex social systems, the potential for collective intelligence, and the design of institutions for meeting the challenges of a complex world. In 2025, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2011 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of more than one hundred research papers in a variety of fields including: game theory, economics, political theory, formal political science, sociology, psychology, philosophy, physics, public health, geography, computer science, and management. His fifth book, The Model Thinker, was published by Basic Books in November 2018, and has been an Amazon Best Seller in more than ten categories and is being translated into five languages. His first book, The Difference, was recently released as a Princeton Classic. His UMRA presentation will focus on the complex challenges we face as a nation and globally and how meeting those challenges requires collective intelligence. He will describe how collective intelligence depends upon diversity, selection, and adaptive interactions.