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Yolande E. Chan
Born
Yolande E. Brown

Kingston, Jamaica
EducationMassachusetts 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
Known forFirst Black Rhodes Scholar and first female Rhodes Scholar at MIT[1]

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.[2] Her research focuses on innovation, knowledge strategy, digital strategy, and business-IT alignment.[3] Chan has long been a champion for women and underrepresented 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.[4]

Early life and education

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[1] and in her final undergraduate year completed her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.[1] She then went on to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where she obtained her Master of Philosophy in Management Studies.[3] In 1992, she obtained a PhD in Business Administration (MIS) from Ivey Business School, at Western University.[3]

Career

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.[3] Before joining academia, she worked with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).[6]

Her work has been published in academic journals, including MIT 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 co-Editor-in Chief of Journal of Strategic Information Systems.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Yolande Brown Chan". MIT Black History. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  2. ^ Staff, McGill Reporter (23 June 2021). "Yolande E. Chan named Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management". McGill Reporter. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Profile with Yolande Chan". Rhodes Project. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  4. ^ Massé, Isabelle (18 March 2022). "Entrevue avec Yolande E. Chan: La doyenne des affaires". La Presse. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Yolande E. Chan". The Conversation. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Yolande Chan appointed Dean of McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management". Ron Fanfair. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Yolande E. Chan's research". ResearchGate. Retrieved 1 Nov 2022.
  8. ^ "Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System: Member biographies". Government of Canada. 7 Oct 2022. Retrieved 1 Nov 2022.
  9. ^ "Government of Canada launches Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System" (Press release). Ottawa, Ontario: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Cision. 6 Oct 2022. Retrieved 1 Nov 2022.
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