Richard (Rick) Watson

Richard (Rick) Watson, Regents Professor and J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy Emeritus at the University of Georgia, is a former President of the Association for Information Systems. He was awarded the organization’s highest honor, the LEO, for his achievements in information systems. For approximately a decade, he served as the Research Director for the Advanced Practices Council of the Society of Information Management and as a visiting researcher at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). In 2021, the University of Liechtenstein conferred an honorary doctorate upon him. He holds honorary professorial positions at the University of Melbourne and the Queensland University of Technology, and he is a Schöller Senior Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He returned to Australia in 2023, after more than 30 years at the University of Georgia.

Professor Watson has published over 200 journal articles and written or edited over 30 books on topics such as electronic commerce, data management, and energy informatics. His most recent books are Capital, Systems, and Objects and Causal Knowledge Analytics. His work has been published in academic and practitioner journals and translated into several languages.  Dr. Watson has given over 350 invited presentations to practitioners and academics in more than 40 countries, including conference keynotes on six continents. He was educated at the University of Western Australia (BSc, Dip. Comp), Monash University (MBA), and the University of Minnesota (PhD).

Since retiring from the University of Georgia in mid-2023, Rick has published ~20 articles and one book