Professor Bob Galliers – Bentley University
University Distinguished Professor Bob Galliers joined Bentley University, Massachusetts in July 2002;
he served as provost and vice president for academic affairs until July 2009.
Previously Professor of Information Systems and Research Director in the Department of Information Systems
at the London School of Economics, he retains his connection with the LSE as a Visiting Professor.
He is also a Visiting Professor at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales,
and the Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK.
A leader in the field of management information systems, Prof Galliers has published widely in many of the
leading international journals on information systems and has authored or co-authored a number of books,
including Exploring Information Systems Research Approaches: Readings and Reflections (Routledge, 2007),
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). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information
Systems, and a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), the Association for Information Systems
(FAIS) and the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
Professor Emeritus Frank Land – London School of Economics.
Frank F Land, Fellow of the British Computer Society is an information systems researcher and was the
first UK Professor of Information Systems. He is currently emeritus professor in the Department of
Information Systems at the London School of Economics (LSE).
After graduating in Economics from the LSE in 1950, Land joined the London food and catering
enterprise J. Lyons, working on the first electronic computer designed for business use, the LEO I.
In 1967 Land was selected for a newly established post in what later became the Department of Information
Systems at LSE. Here he became involved with the development and definition of the subject and its curriculum.
He chaired working parties for the British Computer Society, the National Computing Centre and the Council
for National Academic Awards concerned with curriculum development. He worked with an international group
to establish the International Federation for Information Processing's (IFIP) curriculum for information
systems designers. At the LSE he set up the ADMIS (Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems)
Masters course and developed a Ph.D. program.
In 1982 Land was appointed as the UK's first professor of Information Systems. In 1986 he moved to the
London Business School as Professor of Information Management. He has served as Visiting Professor at the
University of Pennsylvania (the Wharton School), Sydney University, Bond University, Curtin University,
and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA).
He has been awarded an honorary doctorate in science and the IFIP award for distinguished service. He has
served as technical advisor to House of Commons Select Committees examining IT in the UK.
Land retired from full time academic work in 1992 and is currently Visiting Professor of Information Management
at the LSE and at Leeds Metropolitan University.
In 2003 Land was jointly awarded the Association for Information Systems' LEO Award with Dr Jack F
Rockart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for lifetime exceptional achievement. The award
recognised seminal contributions to research, theory development, and practice in Information Systems.
Karen Price, OBE, Chief Executive, e-Skills.
Karen Price is widely recognised as an 'agenda setter', uniting industry, influencing government, and
supporting the transformation of the UK's education and training system to meet the changing skills
demands of the e-economy.
Regularly in demand as advisor and speaker, she promotes a coherent strategy for IT-related skills for the
UK to help address the rapidly changing global competitive environment – not only for IT and Telecoms
professionals, but also for all business managers and leaders who need to be able to exploit technology,
and for all individuals who need to be able to use technology in their day to day lives.
Karen's early career was in education prior to a wide-ranging career in business, including directorships
in the construction and publishing industries, leading company start-ups, and also holding a number of
roles in IBM UK's Corporate Affairs and Global Services divisions. Karen led the mergers which created
e-skills UK in 2000, and the subsequent successful licensing of the company as a Sector Skills Council in 2003.
In 2006, Karen was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the
IT industry.