Wayne D. Parker, Ph.D. is the Executive Director for the Socionomics Foundation (see website at www.socionomics.org). He works closely with the foundation's staff to build collaborative connections with academic researchers at universities both in the U.S. and around the world.

Dr. Parker is a clinical psychologist by training, but most of his current research interests relate to social psychology and the new field of socionomics.

After his undergraduate years at Yale, he completed a doctorate at Temple University in Philadelphia. Subsequent positions included a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and another fellowship in philosophy of science at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas.

Since the early 1980s he has lived in Atlanta, combining clinical work in private practice with teaching as an adjunct faculty member in the Psychiatry Department of the Emory University School of Medicine. In 2003, he joined the Socionomics Foundation full-time to further advance the science of socionomics, the science of social prediction.

Update (May, 2009): Dr. Parker left his position at the Socionomics Foundation in January, 2009. He is now working full-time in his clinical private practice as a marital therapist (his website is at: www.atlantamaritaltherapy.com), but he is also pursuing his research interests in social psychology and socionomics part-time. He is working on several journal articles related to socionomics, and hopes to have these published soon. His most recent publication was in the 2007 Journal of Behavioral Finance, Volume 8, Number 2, a work he coauthored with Robert Prechter: "The Financial/Economic Dichotomy in Social Behavioral Dynamics."