2nd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation

Biographies
Dr David Barnes David Barnes is Senior Lecturer in Operations and Strategic Management at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has held lecturing posts with the Open University and Thames Valley University, and was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He holds a BSc (Eng) from Imperial College London, a MBA from the Open University and a PhD from Staffordshire University. Prior to academia he worked in the process plant and building products industries, in engineering and line management positions. His research interests include the strategic management of operations; the impact of the Internet-based ICTs of e-business on operations management; performance management; and the management of SMEs. He has published articles in, amongst others, the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Knowledge and Process Management, Electronic Markets, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare, European Journal of Management and the International Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development.	David Barnes
Dr Romano Dyerson Dr Dyerson is currently a senior lecturer in strategy at the School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London and a former research fellow at the Centre for Business Strategy at London Business School. Trained as an economist, his research interests focus on the interplay of strategic and organisational change under conditions of technological innovation. He is particularly interested in managerial strategy and implementation. He has published widely in a number of journals including the Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies and is a member of the Strategic Management Society and British Academy of Management.	Romano Dyerson
Dr G. Harindranath Dr G. Harindranath is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director of the Distance Learning MBA in International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hari holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics, and his research interests include information and communications technology use in SMEs, information infrastructure policy and e-government initiatives in transition economies, and ICT and economic development. Hari is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Information Management, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Knowledge Management. He has published in a range of international journals including Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Human Relations, The Information Society, and Information Technology for Development. Hari regularly serves on the programme committees of a range of major conferences in information systems. He has undertaken consultancy work for the United National Industrial Development Organisation and the Commonwealth Secretariat.	G. “Hari” Harindranath
Professor Geoff Walsham Geoff Walsham is a Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. In addition to Cambridge, he has held academic posts at the University of Lancaster in the UK where he was Professor of Information Management, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and Mindanao State University in the Philippines. His teaching and research is focused on the question: are we making a better world with information and communication technologies? He was one the early pioneers of interpretive approaches to research on information systems. He is currently a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly. His publications include ‘Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations’ (Wiley 1993), and ‘Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context’ (Wiley, 2001).	Geoff Walsham
Sir George Cox Sir George Cox is the past Chairman of the Design Council and the author of the Cox Review (on creativity in business) for the UK government. The ‘Cox Review’ produced a number of far-reaching recommendations, and attracted considerable international interest; since its publication, Sir George has spoken on its outcome in several countries around the world and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos. Prior to his role with the Design Council, he was Director General of the Institute of Directors: the body that serves and represents the interests of some 55,000 UK business leaders. This followed a long career in IT, both as a senior corporate executive and as a highly successful entrepreneur, co-founding the consultancy and research group, Butler Cox. Sir George is currently a Board Member of NYSE-Euronext (the group comprising the New York Stock Exchange, the Paris, Amsterdam, Bruxelles and Lisbon Stock Exchanges, and the London Financial Futures and Options Exchange). He is also a Director of Shorts, the aerospace company, chairs the Board of Warwick Business School, serves on the Council of Warwick University, is President of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. He is an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Middlesex, Northumbria, De Montfort and Huddersfield, and has been a Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway. He is a Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Designers. Sir George was knighted for services to business in 2006.	Sir George Cox
Dr Birger Rapp Birger Rapp is professor emeritus in Economic Information Systems, Linköping University and now visiting professor at Uppsala university (50%) and Blekinge University college (20%). He is the dean of the research school Management and IT at the Uppsala University. This school includes twelve Universities and University´s colleges within Sweden and has about 70 phD students. (see www.forskarskolan-mit.nu ). Birger Rapp has been the president of SORA, The Swedish Operational Research Association and was the second president of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies within IFORS) and the vice president at large of IFORS. He belongs to the editorial (advisory) boards of several international journals. Today it is e.g. IJMSD, JORBEL, IBIS and Omega. He acts as a referee in many other scientific journals. He has several publications in books and international journals in the field of Finance and Accounting, Energy and Environment, Production and Production Control, Management and IT, Application of Principal Agent theory, Simulation and Learning and Strategy and Control.	Birger Rapp
Dr Riccardo Spinelli Dr Spinelli received his PhD in Service Management and Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Genoa (Italy), on the topic “Digital economy and the internationalisation of firms”, and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the same Institution. He teaches International Marketing and Management, Global Strategy and Business Administration in under- and post-graduate programmes. His research interests include the foundations of the digital economy, the relationship between the development of e-business and the internationalisation of firms, the application of ICT in SMEs and the management of SMEs. He has recently received a grant from the Italian National Research Council (CNR) for a research project on the role of ICT in the internationalisation processes of firms.	Riccardo Spinelli
Mr Tuan Yu Tuan Yu has been a lecturer on e-commerce and organisations at Kent Business School since 2000. His research interests are in the psychology of judgement, decision making, reasoning, explanation and evaluation within the Information Systems Effectiveness area (for topics in this area, please see: http://business.clemson.edu/ISE/ )	Tuan Yu