Wayne D. Parker, Ph.D. is the Executive Director for the Socionomics Foundation. 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, with particular interests in family systems theory, neuropsychology, and the use of tools from philosophy of science to analyze the relationships among the disparate theories of the social sciences.

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