Professor Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Director at the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG) at the University of Kassel, will assume the chairmanship of the Scientific Commission for Information Systems (WKWI) in the Association of University Teachers of Business Administration (VHB) for two years as of July 1, 2017. The Scientific Commission for Business Informatics (WKWI) represents the interests of members within the VHB who are involved in the field of business informatics in research and teaching. It is the largest scientific commission within the VHB. The Association of University Teachers of Business Administration (VHB) is composed of more than 2,200 members who are scientifically active in the field of business administration, in particular university professors who have completed their habilitation. It sees itself as an association of German-speaking university professors of business administration. Most members come from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but many members also work in other European or even non-European countries such as Australia, Japan, Korea, the USA or Canada. 

Leimeister was already active in the Scientific Commission for Information Systems (WKWI) and succeeds Prof. Dr. Christine Legner from the University of Lausanne in the position of chairman. The focus of the WKWI's work is on holding conferences, preparing recommendations for curricula, promoting young scientists, initiating research projects, and representing interests vis-à-vis politics, the DFG, and other scientific commissions and organizations. After Professor Leimeister recently served together with Prof. Dr. Walter Brenner as Conference Chair of the Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) conference in St.Gallen from February 12-15, 2017, the largest conference of its kind in the German-speaking world, he will thus assume another responsible position within the WI community as of July 1, 2017.

Professor Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister studied (Dipl. oec.) and earned his doctorate (Dr. oec.) at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart) and habilitated at the Technical University of Munich. Research stays took him to the University of Maryland, Columbia University, University of Queensland, University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University. His research focuses on digital business, digital transformation, service research, crowdsourcing, digital work, collaboration engineering, and IT innovation management. He teaches in various executive education programs on these topics. He has received several international awards for his research and teaching achievements, including the TUM Research Excellence Award in 2010. Since the establishment of the research ranking for business administration in 2009, the "Handelsblatt" has regularly listed him among the top 1% of the most research-intensive German-speaking professors of business administration.