Ian Angell (Professor)

Europe's leading IT Guru and Futurologist.  Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics

Ian Angell is an expert on Information Systems. An accomplished author he has applied his work to archaeology, crystallography, medicine, physics and social sciences. He is most widely known for his work on computer graphics, including their commercial application.

His main research work concentrates on organizational and national I.T. policies, on strategic information systems, and on computers and risk (both opportunities and hazards), particularly the systemic risks inherent in all socio-technical systems and the security threats posed to organisations by the rapidly diffusing international information infrastructure.

He is currently Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics, arguably the most prestigious Information Systems Chair in the United Kingdom.

In detail

He is policy adviser to UNIDO, to the European Security Forum and to the House of Commons Parliamentary Information Technology Committee on the threats posed by the technical, and the resulting organisational, developments in information technology.

His many consultancy appointments include two Eastern European and one Middle Eastern Government. He has a long-term consultancy looking into the place of IT in European Science Policy with the Research Organisation for Science and Technology in Europe. For the past ten years, he has concentrated on strategic information systems, organisational and IT policies. A particular speciality was the study of Systemic Risk. On his initiative the LSE created a Research Centre for the study of Computer Security.

What he offers you

Ian Angell is well known for his workshops on new tactics for sales and marketing using the Internet, and for his pragmatic, down-to-earth and outspoken views on electronic commerce and developments in the telecoms industry. Corporate audiences will profit from both the research and application of his work across many disciplines.

How he presents

His highly articulate presentations of his controversial position means he is in great demand by the media, and as a speaker on the international lecture circuit. Audiences will most certainly be challenged by the radical ideas of this systems specialist.

Ian is also possibly the wittiest of the technology experts who regularly succeeds in eliciting an uproarious response from his audiences.

"A prophet of the 21st Century."Independent on Sunday