Professor Alshawi is a Professor of Management and IT in Construction and an Associate Dean at the College of Science and Technology, the University of Salford (previously the Director of Build and Human Environment Research Institute). He holds many international advisory posts in various countries and a consultant on a number of projects for the World Bank, UN Agencies and OECD. He is the Chairman of the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform, the number one think-tank in Iraq. He is also the Editor in Chief of the international journal of “Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management”, published by “Emerald”, and the author of over a hundred publications in fields such as integrated computer environments, databases, object oriented databases, IT strategies, CAD, planning automation and IS success factors. He has published a book to provide a holistic view on the readiness of organisations to successfully embrace IT into their work practices. The title of the book is “Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering: Organisational Readiness”.
