AIS Fellows Award Winner - Izak Benbasat
			Izak Benbasat Izak Benbasat is Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration, University of British Columbia. He received his B.A. from Robert College (Istanbul, Turkey) and M.S. and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. Izak has served the Information Systems community in a variety of roles. He was elected to represent the Americas region on the first AIS Council. He was the conference co-chair for the 1998 AIS Americas Conference, and the doctoral consortium chair (1982), program chair (1991) and conference co-chair (1994) for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). He is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His past editorial responsibilities include Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research, Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly, Senior Associate Editor for the theory and research section of the MIS Quarterly, and the IS & DSS Department Editor of Management Science. Izak was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 1985-86, the inaugural year of this program. He was the Cycle & Carriage visiting professor in the Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore (1995), the Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the DeGroot School of Business, McMaster University (1996), visiting professor at ESADE, Barcelona (1997), Shaw Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, The National University of Singapore (2000), and visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong (2002). Over the last two decades, Izak has been consistently ranked among the most prolific research scholars in information systems based on publications in leading journals. The general theme that links his areas of research interests is improving the communication among IT, management, and users of technology. A significant part of his work has dealt with the communication between individual decision makers and IT, in the form of decision support systems and knowledge-based systems. This work has investigated enhanced ways of communicating, such as information presentation methods, direct manipulation interfaces, multimedia systems, and intelligent systems that explain their behavior to users. His research has also studied how managers and IT people communicate, including how the alignment of IT and business goals takes place, and the kind of competencies IT people need in the business domain and business people in the IT domain to effect improved communication. At the industry level, he has studied how organizations communicate with each other via IT in the form of inter-organizational systems. His current work extends this theme to the context of customer-to-business communication in electronic commerce