Professor Evan Duggan is the Executive Director of the Mona School of Business and Professor of Management Information Systems. He joined the Mona School of Business in 2006 after eight years at the Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Alabama, USA. Professor Duggan obtained the Ph.D. and MBA degrees from Georgia State University with concentrations in Decision Sciences and Computer Information Systems and the B.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, Mona.

He has many years of progressive IT experience in industry and academia. He worked at Alcan Jamaica Company (now Windalco) for 25 years in all areas of IT, including the position of Manager of the Information Services Department, and served a short stint as Chief Systems Analyst at Alcan’s Head Office in Montreal Canada, where he led a team in the development of a common IS project management methodology for use by the organization worldwide.

His research interests involve the management of information systems (IS) in corporations, with particular reference to IS success factors and quality and systems delivery methodologies. He has published extensively in refereed information systems (IS) and allied journals such as Information Technology & Management, Journal of End User Computing, Information Resources Management Journal, Human-Computer Interactions, Information & Management, and Communications of the Association of Information Systems, Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. Professor Duggan has also written papers for edited books, and major conference proceedings as well as other scholarly outlets. His book (with co-editor, Han Reichgelt) Measuring Information Systems Delivery Quality (published by Idea Group Inc.) is in the libraries of leading Business and Engineering schools.

In addition to conducting ad hoc reviews of papers for a number of journals and conferences, he is a Section Editor for the African Journal of Information Systems, Associate Editor for Communications of the Association for Information System, and he is on the editorial boards of several international journals, scholarly publishing companies and book series.

Professor Duggan has taught MIS and Decision Sciences courses in several US institutions. At UWI, he teaches in the Masters and Doctoral programmes and provides academic leadership to the IS PhD students. He has been the Academic Director for the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) programme. He is a faculty mentor for the US-based KPMG Information Systems Doctoral Students Association and was the Chairman of the Doctoral Students Affairs Committee for the Decision Sciences Institute (2006-2007) and faculty advisor at the Doctoral Consortium of the Information Resources Management Association International Conference (2004-2006).

Professor Duggan was honoured by his inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2005-2006.