Ojelanki Ngwenyama

Dr. Ngwenyama is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He earned his PhD (1988) from the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and his MBA (1985) from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. In 2009, he received a D.Phil (Honoris Causa) from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pretoria for his international contributions to research methods in Information Systems.

Throughout his career, Dr. Ngwenyama has held numerous academic and research appointments. He served as a Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin University Business School (2017–2020) and as a National Research Foundation Professorial Research Fellow (2019–2020) in the School of Computing at the University of South Africa. In 2012, he was the VELUX Visiting Professor of Information Technology Management at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. In 2011, he was the Andrew Mellon Foundation Mentorship Professor in Information Systems at the University of Cape Town.

Dr. Ngwenyama has been a member of the faculties of several leading institutions, including the Schulich School of Business at York University, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University, and Aarhus Business School at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Informatics at the University of Pretoria.