Yolande E. Chan

Yolande E. Chan is a Jamaican-Canadian information systems professor and education administrator. Chan joined the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University as Dean and James McGill Professor in August 2021. Her research focuses on innovation, knowledge strategy, digital strategy, and business-IT alignment. Chan has long been a champion for women and under-represented groups in academia. In her role as Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, she has made equity, diversity and inclusion a major strategic priority.

Early life and education Chan was born in Kingston, Jamaica to parents Phyllis and George Brown. At age 18, she left Jamaica to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she completed her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and in her final undergraduate year completed her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1992, she earned a PhD in Business Administration (MIS) from Ivey Business School, at Western University. She previously served as Associate Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen's University.

Her work has been published in academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology and European Journal of Information Systems. In 2022, she was appointed by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) to the Government of Canada's Advisory Panel on the Federal Research Support System. She is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Strategic Information Systems.