Ravi is currently Chair of Information Systems and co-founder of the Center for Inclusive Digital Enterprise (CeIDE) at the University of Canterbury Business School. Prior to this he was Visiting Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC Business School (Asia Pacific). He received the BSc (Com Sci, Math & Econ) from Brandon, MSc (Com Sci) from Regina and PhD (Management Sciences) from Waterloo. He has held academic appointments for over two decades in Canada (St FX U), Singapore (NTU) and visiting appointments at the Institute of Technology Bandung, USC Marshall School, IIT-Bombay, IMD, and the SP Jain School of Global Management. He had spent 10 years in industry as Asean Communications Industry Principal at IBM Global Services and Director of the Multimedia Competency Centre of Deutsche Telekom Asia. His teaching, consulting and research interests are in knowledge and digital strategies; focused on digital transformations using data analytics and design thinking. He has co-authored over 100 technical papers which have appeared in leading journals, conferences, trade publications; written a graduate level text on knowledge management technologies; and co-edited a research collection of papers on Understanding the IDM Marketplace. He has also been involved in Singapore’s Initiative for Asean Integration by training senior officials in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar in Advanced IT Planning. He has successfully secured over $1m in grants as Principal Investigator of the NCB-funded S-ONE field trials, an NRF-funded project that calls itself the Special Interest Group on Interactive Digital Enterprises (SIGIDE) and an MoE tier 2 grant on digital literacies, knowledge societies and sustainable development. The impactful and transformational nature of research and teaching gives him much edification. He is a Fellow of the Institution for Engineering & Technology and a Chartered Engineer (UK). Ravi was born in Singapore and currently lives in Christchurch with his family.