Effective August 1, Professor Evan 'Bunny' Duggan will assume the Deanship of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Evan Duggan joined the Mona School of Business in 2006 as Professor of Management Information Systems after eight years at the Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Alabama, USA. In 2007 he was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences and, in August 2008, Executive Director of the Mona School of Business. Professor Duggan obtained the Ph.D. and MBA degrees from Georgia State University with concentrations in Decision Sciences and Computer Information Systems and the B.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, Mona.

Before venturing into Academia, he worked at Alcan Jamaica Company (now Windalco) for 25 years in all areas of IT, up to the position of Manager of the Information Services Department, and served a short stint as Chief Systems Analyst at Alcan’s Head Office in Montreal Canada, where he led a team in the development of a common IS project management methodology for use by the organization worldwide.

Professor Duggan’s research interests include the management of information systems (I/S), with particular reference to IS quality, and systems delivery methodologies. He has published extensively in I/S and allied journal and has also written papers for edited books, and major conference proceedings as well as other scholarly outlets. His book (with co-editor, Han Reichgelt) Measuring Information Systems Delivery Quality (published by Idea Group Inc.) is in the libraries of leading Business and Engineering schools.  In addition to conducting ad hoc reviews of papers for a number of journals and conferences, he is a Section Editor for the African Journal of Information Systems, Associate Editor for Communications of the Association for Information System, and he ison the editorial boards of several international journals, scholarly publishing companies and book series.

Professor Duggan has taught MIS and Decision Sciences courses in several US institutions and at UWI to masters and doctoral students. He is a faculty mentor for the US-based KPMG Information Systems Doctoral Students Association and was the Chairman of the Doctoral Students Affairs Committee for the International Decision Sciences Institute (2006-2007) and faculty advisor at the Doctoral Consortium of the Information Resources Management Association International Conference (2004-2006).  He is on the Board of the ICT University, a US-based institution providing quality ICT and human capacity development, specifically targeted for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Professor Duggan was honoured by his inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2005-2006.

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