The UKAIS Award recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the UK information systems discipline when it comes to research, teaching and service to the community.

Congratulations to David Avison for receiving the 2022 UKAIS Award.

Prof David Avison

David Avison is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School, near Paris, France. He joined ESSEC in 2000 after being Professor at the School of Management at Southampton University. He has also held posts at Brunel and Aston Universities in England, and the University of Technology Sydney and University of New South Wales in Australia, and elsewhere. He was President of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) for 2008-9. He was founding editor of Information Systems Journal, rated as a ‘core’ international research journal in information systems. So far, twenty-five books are to his credit and he has also published a large number of research papers in learned journals, edited texts and conference papers. David received the LEO Award for lifetime exceptional achievement in San Francisco in December 2018 having preciously been awarded the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Silver Core and Fellowship of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

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