Sytse Strijbos (born 1944) is a Dutch academic, former lecturer of Philosophy of technology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and at Potchefstroom University in South Africa,[1] and chairman of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE, known for his work on systems science.
[2][3] Born in Rotterdam, Strijbos graduated in Chemical Engineering[4] at the Delft University of Technology late 1960s.
Later in his career he received his PhD in 1988 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Het technische wereldbeeld : een wijsgerig onderzoek van het systeemdenken" (The technological world-view: a philosophical study of systems thinking) under supervision of Sander Griffioen and Egbert Schuurman.
After his graduation in Delft, Strijbos worked as researcher at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium for ten years.
In 1979 he edited the proceedings of the Congress on Systems thinking and social problems held at the Vrije Universiteit.