Saeed Akhlaghpour

Dr Saeed Akhlaghpour is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at UQ Business School. Prior to joining the University of Queensland in 2015, he held academic positions at Middlesex University London, UK, and McGill University, Canada, where he also obtained his PhD in Management.

Saeed’s research has been published in leading academic outlets, including the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Information & Management, Information and Organization, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, International Journal of Medical Informatics, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Business Research, and the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. His articles have been cited in EU policy documents and featured in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, BBC World News, ABC News, and The Australian. He has received several research and impact awards from the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and the Australasian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

His research interests include:

• Effective and responsible implementation and governance of AI

• Data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity, particularly organisational responses to data breaches and the management of personal health information (PHI)

• Digital health and the transformation of healthcare services

Saeed is Co-Lead of the Future of Health research theme at the Centre for Business and Economics of Health (CBEH). He has been a Chief Investigator in an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Linkage Project studying Digital Hospital implementation in Queensland hospitals and health services. He received the UQ Business School Cross-Disciplinary Research Award.

He is Senior Editor of Information and Organization, Past Section Editor of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems (APJIS), and an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He is Chair-Elect of the Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology (SIG ADIT), and co-chairs tracks at international conferences, including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), and Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS).

Saeed is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He teaches Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital strategy and governance in the Master of Business Analytics, Master of Commerce, MBA, and Executive Education programs. He has previously taught MBA and undergraduate business courses in Brisbane, London, Montreal, and Tehran.