Rudy Hirschheim is the Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the EJ Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University (USA). He previously was the Tenneco/Chase International Professor of Information Systems in the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, and past Director of the Information Systems Research Center. Dr. Hirschheim has held visiting appointments as Adjunct Professor, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia); the Sir Walter Scott Distinguishing Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); the Ludwig Erhard Professor at the University of Bayreuth (Bayreuth, Germany); and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine (Paris, France). He has previously been on the faculties of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada); the London School of Economics (University of London); and Templeton College (University of Oxford). He has also worked as a Senior Consultant with the National Computing Centre in Manchester, England.

Since graduating with a PhD in IS from the University of London, he has authored many academic articles in leading academic and practitioner journals in the US and Europe, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of Marketing, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Communications of the ACM, Omega, and Sloan Management Review.

Dr. Hirschheim is Co-Consulting Editor of the John Wiley Series in Information Systems. He is on the editorial boards of JAIS, Information and Organization, ISJ, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, JMIS, and Journal of Information Technology and has previously been on the boards of EJIS and MIS Quarterly. He was VP for Publications for the Association for Information Systems. Dr. Hirschheim has a PhD in Information Systems and an honorary PhD from the Faculty of Science. He can be reached at rudy@lsu.edu.