Jonathan Rosenhead

Jonathan Vivian Rosenhead (born 21 September 1938)[1] is a British mathematician, operational researcher and Labour Party activist.

He worked as an operational researcher at United Steel Companies in Sheffield in 1961-63 and at Science in General Management Ltd. (SIGMA) in Croydon in 1963-66 before returning to the academic world.

Rosenhead spent 1966-67 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and its Management Science Centre, where Russell L. Ackoff was professor.

He was the editor of the first book to gather a number of problem structuring methods within one volume, Rational analysis for a problematic world, published in 1989.

His political activities has included being chairman of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and being information officer for Jewish Voice for Labour.