Richard Thomas Watson

Richard (Rick) Watson is Regents Professor and J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy Emeritus of the University of Georgia. He is a former President of the Association for Information Systems and was awarded its highest honor, a LEO, for his achievements in information systems. For about a decade, he was the Research Director for the Advanced Practices Council of the Society of Information Management and a visiting researcher at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). In 2021, the University of Liechtenstein awarded him an honorary doctorate. He is an honorary professor at Deakin University and the Queensland University of Technology and a Schöller Senior Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Professor Watson has published over 200 journal articles and written books on electronic commerce, data management, and energy informatics. His most recent book is Capital, Systems, and Objects. His work has been accepted by leading academic and practitioner journals and translated into several languages. Dr. Watson has given over 300 invited presentations to practitioners and academics in more than 30 countries, including conference keynotes on six continents. He is on the editorial board of Energy Informatics and the Sustainability Senior Editor for MISQ Executive. He was educated at the University of Western Australia (BSc, Dip. Comp), Monash University (MBA), and the University of Minnesota (PhD).