Yolande E. Chan

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Yolande E. Chan
Born
Yolande E. Brown

Kingston, Jamaica
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Hertford College, Oxford (MPhil)
University of Western Ontario (PhD)
Occupation(s)Dean and James McGill Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

Yolande E. Chan is a Jamaican-Canadian information systems professor. Chan joined the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University as Dean and James McGill Professor in August 2021. [1] Her research focuses on innovation, knowledge strategy, digital strategy, and business-IT alignment. [2] Chan has long been a champion for women and under-represented groups in academia. In her role as Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, she has made equity, diversity and inclusion a major strategic priority. [3]

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Early life and education

Dr. Chan was born in Kingston, Jamaica to parents Phyllis and George Brown. At the age of 18, she left Jamaica to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she completed her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering [4] and in her final undergraduate year completed her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. [4] She then went on to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she obtained her Master of Philosophy in Management Studies. [2] In doing so she became both the first female student and the first black student from MIT to be a Rhodes Scholar. [4] In 1992, she obtained a PhD in Business Administration (MIS) from Ivey Business School, at Western University. [2]

Career

Dr. Chan has served as Associate Dean of Research, PhD and MSc Programs, and the E. Marie Shantz Chair of Digital Technology at Smith School of Business at Queen's University prior to joining the Desautels Faculty of Management. [5] She has previously served as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen's University. [2] Before joining academia, she worked with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). [6]

Her work has been published in academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research , Journal of Management Information Systems , Journal of Strategic Information Systems , Journal of the Association for Information Systems , Information Systems Journal , Journal of Information Technology and European Journal of Information Systems . [7] In 2022, she was appointed [8] by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to the Government of Canada's Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System. [9] She is the Editor-in Chief of Journal of Strategic Information Systems . [6] In December 2023 Dr. Chan was awarded the LEO prize, the highest honor given to scholars by the Association for Information Systems. [10]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Profile with Yolande Chan". Rhodes Project. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Massé, Isabelle (18 March 2022). "Entrevue avec Yolande E. Chan: La doyenne des affaires". La Presse. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
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  6. 1 2 "Yolande Chan appointed Dean of McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management". Ron Fanfair. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
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  8. ↑ "Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System: Member biographies". Government of Canada. 7 Oct 2022. Retrieved 1 Nov 2022.
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