Geoff Walsham

His teaching and research is focused on the development, management and use of computer-based information systems, and the relationship of information and communication technologies to stability and change in organizations and societies. He is particularly interested in the human consequences of computerisation in a global context, including both industrialised and developing countries. In addition to the experience outlined above, he has worked as a teacher, researcher and consultant in a number of other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

is Professor of Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His initial academic training was in mathematics, and he has degrees from the universities of Oxford and Warwick. 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. He also worked for four years as an operational research analyst for BP Chemicals.

He has published widely in the fields of information systems, organizational behaviour, and operational research. His books include ‘Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations (Wiley 1993), and ‘Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context’ (Wiley, 2001)