AIS 2024 Council Election Results

Thank you to all AIS members for their participation in the 2024 AIS Council Elections. The AIS Secretary and Leadership Team are pleased to announce the following elected candidates, who will take office on September 1, 2024:

Dorothy E. Leidner has been elected to the position of AIS President-Elect. She is the Leslie H. Goldberg Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Business & AI Ethics in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, USA. Her current research and teaching are focused on promoting dignity and ethics in the application of digital technologies and AI. She is an AIS Fellow (2011), LEO (2021) and Senior Scholar. She has served on the AIS Council as the ICIS representative (2016-2017). Currently, she is in the final months of her second term as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. She has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly Executive, co-Editor-in-Chief of The Data Base for Advances in IS, Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, Senior Editor for Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Senior Editor for the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.  She is a professional research fellow at Deakin University, Australia and a visiting professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Christoph Rosenkranz has been elected as Vice President of Education. He is Professor at the Cologne Institute for Information Systems, University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on information systems development, IT project management, IT-driven design and innovation, data and process management, and effects of IT-driven transformation. He served as Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal and as the European Conference on Information Systems co-chair in 2021. Currently, he serves as the Academic Program Director for Cologne’s German-taught undergraduate program in information systems (Bachelor of Science “Wirtschaftsinformatik”). In the past, he designed and founded Cologne’s English-taught Master of Science program in “Business Analytics and Econometrics” and, served as the Founding Academic Director. He regularly serves as a mentor for the doctoral consortium of the Internationale Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik, the regional conference of the German-speaking IS community. He was honored with the AIS Distinguished Member - Cum Laude award.

Carol Hsu has been elected Vice President of Communications. She is Professor and the Head of Business Information Systems Discipline at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia. Her research and teaching interests broadly center around the institutional influences and cultural practices on the use of information systems at the individual, organizational and inter-organizational levels. She currently serves as Senior Editor at the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Information & Management. Her involvement in AIS conferences includes serving as the program co-chair for ICIS 2025 and previously as the program co-chair for PACIS 2022. She received the Sandra Slaughter Service Award from the Association of Information Systems in 2021.

Julia Kotlarsky has been elected as Vice President of SIGs and Colleges. She is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Auckland (UoA) Business School in New Zealand. Her research interests revolve around technology sourcing and innovation, digital sustainability, knowledge and expertise aspects of ML/AI-human interactions, and digital transformation. In 2018, she co-founded the Special Interest Group on Advances in Sourcing, and served for three years as the first President of this group.  She currently serves as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and the Journal of Association for Information Systems. She has been a mentor for Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Consortiums at major Information Systems conferences (ICIS, PACIS, HICSS), and has co-founded the annual Qualitative Paper Development Symposium at the UoA. In 2021, she received the AIS Distinguished Member award for her contributions to AIS.

Congratulations to all who were nominated, as well as the winners, of the 2024 AIS Council Elections!

We especially wish to thank everyone who voluntarily ran for an elected position and included their name on this year's ballot. Regardless if which candidate(s) garner the most votes, it requires an enormous amount of courage and perseverance to do this. We sincerely thank you for willingness to run for an elected position and we thank you for your commitment towards improving and moving the entire community forward. Please be aware the are many ways to volunteer and engage in the community that does not require a formal election, please see here (https://aisnet.org/page/volunteer).

Sabine Matook

AIS Council Secretary