Ivo Šlaus (born 26 September 1931 in Split[1]) is a nuclear and particle physicist, member of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), director of the Academy's South East European Division (SEED) and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Cadmus Journal. He is also a member of the international advisory council of the Club of Rome and former president of the Croatian Association of the Club of Rome; a member of the Pugwash Council and former president of Croatian Pugwash; a founding Fellow of Academia Europaea; a member of the managing board of the Balkan Political Club; Chairman, International Network of Centres for Sustainable Development; founder and former Executive Committee member of the European Physical Society; Fellow World Innovation Foundation, and a former member of the Parliament of Croatia. Professor Šlaus has held academic teaching posts at Rudjer Bošković Institute, Croatia, UCLA, Georgetown University, Duke University, and the International postgraduate school "Jozef Stefan", Ljubljana (since 2003). He has received national awards for research in 1962 and in 1969.[2]
Last year Professor Šlaus constituted a small working group to evaluate the need for new economic theory and has published two recent papers based on that work.[3]