Gerald Grant

Biography

Gerald Grant is Director of the Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP) and Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He obtained his PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom. Gerry has consulted for the Commonwealth Secretariat in the U.K. and the COMNETFoundation in Malta on projects related to the digital divide, ICT capacity building and the development of national ICT strategies in commonwealth countries. In this capacity, he has planned and facilitated seminars and workshops for senior government officials in the U.K., Malta, East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia. In 2001, he served as program coordinator for the Commonwealth-sponsored “Regional Initiative for Informatics Strategies”. In addition, he assisted in drafting the report of the Commonwealth Action Program on the Digital Divide in 2005. He has also served on two Mayor’s Task Forces for the City of Ottawa (Canada): the e-Government and IT Taskforce and the Governance Taskforce set up by the Mayor of Ottawa in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He has served as an advisor to the Government of Jamaica on its National ICT policy and strategy.

Research Interest

Dr. Grant’s research focuses on the strategic management of information technology in private and public sector organizations. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Information and Management Journal as well as Associate Editor of the Information Technology for Development Journal. He previously served as Senior Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and an Associate Editor of the Journal for Global Information Management.