Dr. Dennis Anderson has over 25 years of leadership experience in various areas, including higher education, civil society, nonprofit, and international organizations. Dennis has been a professor for 30 years. Most recently, Dennis was the Provost, Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President at St. Francis College in New York City. Previously, he served as a Chair and Professor of Management and Information Technology at St. Francis College. He also served as the Founding Executive Chair of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior to this role, he held positions as a Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean at Pace University, where he also served as the Founding Director of the University’s Center for Advanced Media. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in academic and faculty affairs. He is a vocal advocate for technology-enhanced learning, emerging technologies, sustainable technologies, and knowledge entrepreneurship. He has taught business, information systems, and computer science courses at various institutions including NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, City University of New York, and Pace University. Additionally, he is the Chair of NABU – Knowledge Transfer Beyond Boundaries, which has served as a Special Consultative NGO to the United Nations ECOSOC since 2015.
Dennis holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Mathematics Education from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, an Ed.M in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University, an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and a B.A. in Computer Science from Fordham University. He has completed an executive education program in E-Commerce at Columbia University’s School of Business and a professional program in multimedia at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an alumnus of Harvard University’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Education Program and Crisis Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School.
He has presented at international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and at numerous international conferences on topics such as e-government, ICT, future workforce, AI, sustainable development, leadership, and education. His research interests include ICT, sustainable development, information policy, global digital divide, human-computer interaction, AI, computer science, mathematics, distance education, and e-commerce. He has received numerous grants, including those from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has served as a reviewer/referee for grants, fellowships, and publications. He has been named to the roster of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board’s Fulbright Senior Specialist program as an expert in IT, and has served as an advisor to various advisory boards, NGOs, startups, and conference boards including the following: United Nations Advisory Group for the UN E-government Survey, CIO Executive Forum in Support of the UN Forum in Shanghai, Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology, International Advisory Council, Microsoft Faculty Advisory Board, Education Leaders Forum, CIO Executive Programs, CXO Media, New York City Department of Education, Council for Career and Technical Education, and Computerworld Strategic Programs.
He has served as a judge for several national and international awards and competitions, including the New York City Science and Engineering Fair, Imagine Cup, Computerworld Honors, CIO100, CSO50, and the Advanced Technology Emmy Awards, and as a reviewer for the New York State Education Department’s Institutional Accreditation. He has presented to companies such as Microsoft and IBM, and is a member of professional organizations including the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE-Computer Society, and the Association for Information Systems. He was also a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Université de Mons-Hainaut Waroque Business School in Belgium, where he gave lectures on e-commerce and emerging technologies. He has also served as a high-level advisor to the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development.
Dennis has been a Fellow or Visiting Scholar at distinguished organizations including the Faruk Eczacibasi Fellow in Residence, the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society in Graz, the UBS Wolfsberg Think Tank in Switzerland, Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, and Bogazici University in Istanbul. His achievements have led to inductions into honor societies such as Sigma Xi, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, and Sigma Beta Delta.
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