Chrisanthi Avgerou

Chrisanthi Avgerou, born in 1954, is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the Social Study of Information Systems, focusing on information technology in developing countries, and is Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Association for Information Systems, associate editor of The Information Society journal and the Information Systems Research journal, and has served as chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9, which explores the relationship between computers and society. She has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Athens, an MSc in computer science from Loughborough University and a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics. Her books include The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (2007), The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology (2004) and Information Systems and Global Diversity (2002).