Professor Shirley Gregor
Shirley Gregor is the ANU Endowed Chair in Information Systems at the Australian National University, Canberra, where she heads the National Centre for Information Systems Research and is a member of the School of Accounting and Business Information Systems.
Professor Gregor's current research interests include the adoption and strategic use of information and communications technologies, the philosophy of technology, intelligent systems and human-computer interface issues. Dr Gregor has led several large projects in the e-commerce area funded by the Meat Research Corporation, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, and the Australian Research Council.
Professor Gregor spent a number of years in the computing industry in Australia and the United Kingdom before beginning an academic career. She obtained her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Queensland. Dr Gregor's publications include 4 edited books, 15 book chapters and over 100 papers in conferences and journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, CACM, European Journal of Information Systems and Information Technology & People.
Professor Gregor was inaugural President of the Australasian Association of Information Systems 2002-2003. She is currently Region 3 (Asia/Pacific) Councillor for the Association of Information Systems and Director of the Professional Standards Board of the Australian Computer Society. She is a also a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly.
Professor Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2005 for services as an educator and researcher in the field of information systems and in the development of applications for electronic commerce in the agribusiness sector. Also, in 2005 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. | 
