AIS 2025 Council Election Results

The 2025 AIS Council Elections are complete and they garnered one of the largest vote tallies in AIS history. Thank you to everyone who voted and congratulations to all nominees and the winners. 

The elections do require an extensive amount of planning and coordination each year.  We thank the members of the AIS Nominating Committee, which was chaired this year by AIS President-Elect Dorothy Leidner, and members Nancy Pouloudi (Immediate Past President, R3), Elena Karahanna (R1), Claudia Loebbecke (R2), Dov Te’eni (R2), Jack Jiang (R3) and Damien Joseph (R3).   Special thanks are extended to AIS Council Secretary Sabine Matook and the AIS Administration Director Aretha Wright for their efforts in the preparation and oversight of the elections. 

We especially wish to thank everyone who voluntarily ran for an elected position. Regardless of which candidate(s) received the most votes, it requires an enormous amount of courage and dedication to service. Thank you for your willingness to run for an elected position and thank you for your commitment towards improving and moving the AIS community forward. Please be aware there are many ways to volunteer and engage in the community that do not require a formal election, please see here (https://aisnet.org/page/volunteer).

The winners of the 2025 AIS Council Elections are as follows:

Jan vom Brocke has been elected to the position of AIS President-Elect. He is an AIS Fellow with over 20 years of experience developing academic institutions. He is the Head of the Information Systems Department at the University of Münster and Director of ERCIS, leading collaborations with 100+ research and industry partners across Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. He also holds positions as Honorary Distinguished Professor at Maynooth University in Ireland and Academic Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research. His globally impactful work includes widely cited publications in top journals, teaching in over 20 countries, and securing more than $60 million in public and private funding.

Michel Avital has been elected to the position of Vice President of Publications. He is a Professor of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He previously held faculty positions at the University of Amsterdam and Case Western Reserve University, his alma mater. An advocate of openness and cross-boundary collaboration, Michel’s research explores how digital innovation ecosystems shape organizational practices. He has published over 100 articles on the development and impact of emerging technologies in organizations and the future of work. Michel is an active member of the academic publishing community, serving as a Senior Editor, Editorial Board Member, and Guest Editor for top journals. He also plays key leadership roles in major international conferences. As a technology enthusiast and digital entrepreneur, he collaborates with start-ups, enterprises, and government agencies to harness emerging technologies for innovation and sustainable growth.

Marie-Claude Boudreau has been elected to the position of Vice President of Conferences. She is an Associate Professor of MIS at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, where she served as MIS Department Head from 2012 to 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University, along with degrees from institutions in France and Canada. Her research examines how information systems—such as integrated and open-source software—drive organizational change and support sustainability (Green IS). She has led interdisciplinary collaborations and secured multiple research grants in these areas. Maric’s work appears in top academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, and the Journal of the AIS.

Jens Dibbern has been elected to the position of Vice President of Member Services and Chapters. Since 2009, he has been a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is an active contributor to the academic community, having served as Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly and as Department Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS). He has also taken on leadership roles at major conferences such as ICIS and Wirtschaftsinformatik and has participated in doctoral, junior, and mid-career consortia at ECIS and ICIS. He served two terms as President of the Swiss Chapter of the AIS, where he helped strengthen the local IS academic network and launched the International Conference on Information Systems Sourcing (ICOIS), held four times to date. His research focuses on the management of IT services and digital innovation, including topics such as IT sourcing, platform ecosystems, digital ventures, innovation processes, and human-AI interaction.

Michael Chau has been elected as World Region Representative for Region 3. He is a Full Professor of Innovation and Information Management at the HKU Business School, University of Hong Kong. His research lies at the intersection of information systems, computer science, business analytics, and information science, with a focus on data, text, and web mining applications in business, education, and social domains. He has published over 80 refereed journal papers in top outlets such as MIS Quarterly and Journal of MIS, and has received multiple research and best paper awards. He was honored with the AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award in 2016 and is highly ranked in research productivity studies. He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Management and Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, in addition to serving on editorial boards of several journals.

Sabine Matook
AIS Council Secretary