14 Facts About Frank Land

Frank Land is currently emeritus professor in the Department of Information Systems at the London School of Economics.

Frank Land was married to Ailsa Land, a professor of Operations Research.

Frank Land and his brother Ralph were born in Berlin into a well-off Jewish family, who fled to the UK in 1939 in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.

In 1967, Land was selected for a newly established post in what later became the Department of Information Systems at LSE.

Frank Land chaired working parties for the British Computer Society, the National Computing Centre, and the Council for National Academic Awards concerned with curriculum development.

Frank Land worked with an international group to establish the International Federation for Information Processing's curriculum for information systems designers.

In 1982, Frank Land was appointed as the UK's first professor of information systems.

Frank Land has served as visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Sydney University, Bond University, Curtin University, and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Frank Land has been awarded an honorary doctorate in science and the IFIP award for distinguished service.

Frank Land has served as technical advisor to House of Commons Select committees examining IT in the UK.

Frank Land retired from full-time academic work in 1992 and is currently Visiting Professor of Information Management at the LSE and at Leeds Metropolitan University.

In 2003, Land was jointly selected for the AIS LEO Award with Jack F Rockart of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for lifetime exceptional achievement.

Frank Land was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to the information systems industry.

Frank Land's wife was the LSE operational research emeritus professor Ailsa Land.