Ian Hodgkinson (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Professor of Strategy at Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University (UK). Ian has published extensively on digital transformation and the role of digital innovations for service value co-creation across private and public sector contexts, with this work featuring in a range of leading academic journals (e.g. Public Management Review, Technovation, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Public Money and Management). Ian’s groundbreaking research on digital decarbonization earned him prestigious recognition from the World Economic Forum for coining the phenomenon in 2022. Ian has advanced new knowledge on the net-zero implications of digital transformations, both the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’. His research on digital decarbonization has been instrumental in guiding the critical next steps for the digital decarbonization movement. Notably, Ian has developed the first publicly available digital decarbonization toolkit, which serves as an indispensable resource for organizations seeking to embark on their net zero data journey.
