Professor Geoff Walsham

at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), University of Cambridge

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Emeritus Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems), Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Geoff Walsham worked for four years as an operational research analyst at BP Chemicals before taking up academic posts in operational research and then information systems. He has extensive international experience having worked as a teacher, researcher or consultant in over 25 countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He was part of the senior management team for the telecommunications company Analysys during its start-up and early growth phases. Professor Walsham has also held university management posts including being Director of the Cambridge MBA. He has wide editorial experience, having been a Senior Editor of both MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and he is currently an editorial board member of a number of other academic journals.

Geoff has held lectureships at Mindanao State University in the Philippines, the University of Nairobi in Kenya, and the University of Cambridge, and a professorship at the University of Lancaster.

Research interests include the development, use and management of information and communication technologies and systems; and implications for work, organisations and societies.

Geoff Walsham is a member of the Operations, Information & Technology subject group.

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.

  • 6 June 2013, 5:30pm

    CSaP Distinguished Lecture: Chi Onwurah MP

    Chi Onwurah, Shadow Minister, Cabinet Office discusses the relationship between citizen and Government in a world of interdependent cyber security.