Dr Maria do Rosário Fraga Oliveira Martins
Maria do Rosario Martins is an Associate Professor and vice-Director at the Institute for Statistics and Information Management (ISEGI) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also Pro-Rector of this University. Her research interests include Econometrics, Multivariate Analysis, Credit Scoring, Knowledge Management, e-Learning

Maria has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the Nova University of Lisbon, a Master of Econometrics from the Free University of Brussels and a Doctor of Economics (Ph.D.) from the Free University of Brussels. She is author of several publications including chapters in books and articles. She has published in several national and international journals and conference proceedings.

She is the scientific co-ordinator of several funded research and development projects as well as community consulting within CEGI and regularly advises graduate students (Masters and PhD) at ISEGI and other schools in the Econometric and Statistics area. She is also called as external committee member to dissertations in other institutions.

Maria do Rosario Martins

Dr Frank Bannister
Dr Frank Bannister is a Senior Lecturer in information systems in Trinity College. Dublin.  His research interests include e-government, e-democracy and IT value and evaluation, particularly in the public sector.  He is chairman of the European Conference on e-Government, a member of the European Group on Public Administration and editor of the Electronic Journal of e-Government.  Frank is also a member of the Institute of Management Consultants in Ireland, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer.

Frank Bannister

Dr Elizabeth Reis
Elizabeth Reis is full professor of Statistics and Marketing Research at the Department of Quantitative Methods, ISCTE Business School in Lisbon. She received a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, University of Oporto and completed a Ph.D. in Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, UK.  Her research interests are focused both on data collection (evaluation of sampling methods and surveys’ quality) and data analysis methodologies (multivariate statistics applied to business and management research).  She is now President of the Scientific Committee of the ISCTE Business School, Director of the Management Doctoral Programme and President of the Business and Management Research Unit (UNIDE – Unidade de Investigação em Desenvolvimento Empresarial). Download a description of Dr Reis’ keynote presentation here.

Elizabeth Reis

Dr George Allan
Dr George Allan obtained his BSc from Reading University, UK in 1967 and started professional life as a mathematical statistician. He became interested in where and how people collected their data and in 1980 he cross-trained as a Systems Analyst. In the next 11 years he progressed to project leader, project manager and project director. He joined the University of Portsmouth, England in 1991 as a senior lecturer and obtained his MA(Ed) in 1997 focusing on Higher Education and his PhD in 2003 in Information Systems Configuration Management. He has lectured on IT/IS project management at The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa, Syracuse University USA, Jilin University in China, UNITEC New Zealand and recently held research seminars on Grounded Theory at the University Putra Malaysia. His current research focus is on the ontological and epistemic grounds for managing projects in developing Information Systems.

George Allan

Dr Carole Brooke
Dr. Carole Brooke is Reader in the Lincoln Business School at the University of Lincoln, UK. Current research is focused on critical approaches to inquiry especially in the area of information systems. Recent publications in this area include two special issues of the Journal of Information Technology in 2002. Current works in progress include a book on Critical Approaches to Information Systems, special issues of the journals Tamara and Information Systems Journal, work with the Co-operative Bank on corporate social responsibility, and a paper on postmodernism and faith.

Carole Brooke

Dr Ann Brown
Ann Brown joined Cass Business School after working in the steel industry as an Operational Researcher. She has worked as a management consultant on a diversity of projects in the operational research and information systems areas. Her teaching has covered a wide range of subjects (quantitative methods, business packages for personal computers, business strategy, management of information systems and e-business).. She is currently Course Director of BSc (Management) at Cass Business School

She is an active member of the international IS research community and supports a number of IS academic conferences through her work as a member of conference committees, including IFIP WG8.2 working conferences group (International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2). She obtained her doctorate from City University in 2005, based on her work into the problems and potential of Information Systems applications to create Business Value for organisations. Her research subjects include the effective management of IS/IT within organizations, evaluation of IS/IT projects, the business potential of developing ICT applications, and research methodologies for IS research.

Ann Brown

Martin Rich
Martin Rich initially worked in the information systems sector as a consultant and project manager, before joining Cass Business School as a lecturer. During his career at Cass he has taken responsibility for a series of innovative applications of technology to management learning, all of them underpinned by a thorough research foundation. His interests centre around applying the scholarship of teaching and learning to management education.

Martin Rich