Robert D. Galliers
Appointed to his current post in 2002, Bob Galliers came to Bentley from the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems. Before joining LSE, he served as Lucas Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School, and earlier as Foundation Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University in Australia.
A leader in the field of management information systems, Galliers is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jsis), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the British Computer Society and the Association for Information Systems, of which he is a past president. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK; The Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK. In the past, he has held visiting professorships at INSEAD, France, University of St Gallen, Switzerland, the City University of Hong Kong, the Institute for Advanced Management Studies, Belgium, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Bond University, Australia.
He has published widely in many of the leading international journals on Information Systems and has also co-authored a number of books, the most recent being: the third edition of the best seller, Strategic Information Management (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003), Rethinking Management Information Systems (Oxford University Press, 1999) and IT and Organizational Transformation (Wiley, 1998).
Galliers began his professional career outside of academia, first in social work administration and then in management consulting. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University, an MA in Management Systems from Lancaster University, and a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland in 1995.
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