Yolande Chan

Biography

Yolande E. Chan is Dean and James McGill Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Prior to joining Desautels, she served as Associate Dean of Research, PhD and MSc Programs, and the E. Marie Shantz Chair of Digital Technology at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University. She holds a PhD in Business Administration from Ivey Business School at Western University, an MPhil in Management Studies from Oxford University, and SM and SB degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Her research focuses on digital technology strategy and digital innovation, and is regularly published in the top journals in the Information Systems field. She is co-Editor-in Chief of one of these journals, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She is a Fellow and Distinguished Cum Laude member of the Association for Information Systems. She is married to fellow Rhodes Scholar Michael P. Chan.