Ian R. Hodgkinson

Ian Hodgkinson (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Professor of Strategy at Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University (UK) and a OECD.AI Compute and Climate expert. 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 decarbonisation 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; notably, Ian has developed the first publicly available digital decarbonisation toolkit, which serves as an indispensable resource for organisations seeking to embark on their net zero data journey.