Dr. Mary Lacity is an Associate at The Outsourcing Unit, London School of Economics and Curator's Professor and International Business Fellow at University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. She is a Certified Outsourcing Professional (Reg TM), Co-Chair of the IAOP Midwest Chapter, Industry Advisor for the Outsourcing Angels, Co-editor of the Palgrave Series: Work, Technology, and Globalization , and on the Editorial Boards for Journal of Information Technology , MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal . She was inducted into the IAOP's Hall of Fame in 2014. She is the recipient of the 2008 Gateway to Innovation Award and the 2000 World Outsourcing Achievement Award. She has published 16 books. Dr.

Leslie Willcocks is Director of The Outsourcing Unit, London School of Economics (LSE) and Professor of Technology, Work and Globalisation at LSE. He holds visiting chairs at Erasmus, Melbourne and Sydney universities and is an Associate Fellow at Green-Templeton, University of Oxford. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology for the last 20 years, and is joint series editor, with Mary C. Lacity, of the Palgrave book series Technology Work and Globalization . He has co-authored 39 books. In February 2001 he won the PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Michael Corbett Associates World Outsourcing Achievement Award for his contribution to this field. In 2014 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the IAOP.